kö'tümü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kö'tümü
Brazilian standard	kä'tömö
New Tribes	cä'tömö

Etymology

Compare Trió këhtumu (“to shout, to scream”), and, from the same root, but with a different construction, Apalaí kohta and Kari'na kòta (“to scream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kəʔtɨmɨ]

Verb

kö'tümü

1. (intransitive, patientive) to shout, cry out

Derived terms

• kö'tümüdü
• kö'tünnö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kö'tümü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kəʔtɨn-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021