ütö

See also: uto, utó, utó-, ütő, and -uto

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	ütö
Brazilian standard	ötä
New Tribes	ötä

Alternative forms

üttö, ü'tö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tô (“to go”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɨtə]

Verb

ütö

(intransitive) to go
- 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (CtoWoshi.005), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 355:
  ¿Össa küntaakö tüwü?
  Where was he going?
(intransitive) to walk, stroll

Usage notes

This verb takes an irregular suffix -mö in place of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -nto rather than -icho.

The imperative form is also irregular: singular öjöne, plural ojonkomo.

Derived terms

ütaajö

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ütö(mö)”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 129, 215–216, 230–231
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 391, 403: “['i:'tšë:dï] ~ [i:'tšë:dï] 'to walk' […] i:'chö:dü - walk, stroll […] wü:tö:nö - to go”
Hall, Katherine (2007) “wɨʔtə̄-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-ōhoyma-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021