do'ta

See also: dota, DotA, dotá, dotā, and DOTA

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	do'ta
Brazilian standard	do'ta
New Tribes	do'ta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doʔta]

Noun

do'ta (obligatorily possessed; possessed do'tadü)

1. middle, core
2. trunk of the body
3. inner part of the trunk of a tree
4. one of the several doubles or spirits (ökato) possessed by each person, namely the one said to reside in the heart, to be benevolent, and, along with the önu ekato, to animate a human being and return to the sky at death

   Synonym: öwanü akano ökato

5. (by extension) Synonym of ökato (“spirit, double”) in general

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “do'ta”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 219, 288, 388: “[ḍo:'ta] 'trunk of body, thorax' […] do'ta -do:'ta -dü 'trunk of body' […] do:'ta - trunk (of body), soul”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dōʔta”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[3], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 86–87: “do'ta”