mottoo
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | mottoo |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | mottoo |
| New Tribes | mottoo |
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mottoo
- (Caura River dialect) a kind of long earthworm or caecilian used as a sacred food during major life events and at the end of any fast, and also for fishing
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mottoo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “moto”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 394: “moto 'earthworm' […] motto - earth worm”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “motto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 30, 133: “motto”
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 36: “motto”