tüsochaamü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tüsochaamü
Brazilian standard	tösoochaamö
New Tribes	tösoochaamö

Etymology

From t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ soicha (“to scratch”) +‎ -mü (patient nominalizer), thus literally ‘the one to be scratched’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɨsoːt͡ʃaːmɨ]

Noun

tüsochaamü

1. match (for lighting fires)

   Synonym: wa'to

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 400: “[tïṣoča:mị̈] 'match, light for the fire' […] tüsocha:mü - light, matches”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨsočāmɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021