ejutö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ejutö
Brazilian standard	ejuutä
New Tribes	ejuutä

Alternative forms

• eju'ta (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ehuːtə]

Verb

ejutö (Caura River dialect, transitive)

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

References

• 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