woto

Kari'na

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *woto; compare Trió oto, Waiwai woto, Akawaio wo', Pemon woto.

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [βoːto]
• (West Suriname) IPA^(key): [ʋoːto]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [woʔto]

Noun

woto (possessed wotory)

1. fish

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 430
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “woto”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 535; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956, page 524

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈwo.to]

Verb

woto

1. (transitive) to bury

Conjugation

Conjugation of woto
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	towoto	fowoto	miwoto
2nd	nowoto	niwoto
3rd	Masculine	owoto	iwoto, yowoto†
Feminine	mowoto
Neuter	iwoto
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh