ejutö

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ejutö
Brazilian standard ejuutä
New Tribes ejuutä

Alternative forms

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  • eju'ta (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

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From öju (handle) +‎ -tö (benefactive verbalizer).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ejutö (Caura River dialect, transitive)

  1. to set a handle in an axe, broom, etc.
  2. to set an arrow to a bow

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ejutö”, 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, page 217:[wehu'ta] 'I put the stick'
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ehuʔta-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021