wa'to

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See also: wato, wàto, and 'wa'tö

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV wa'to
Brazilian standard wa'to
New Tribes wa'to

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *wapoto. Cognate to Yao (South America) ouapoto.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wa'to (possessed wa'todü)

  1. firewood
  2. match (for lighting fires)
    Synonym: tüsochaamü
  3. fire, flame
    Synonym: udinñü

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wa'to”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wa:'to”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wāʔto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨsočāmɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021