wa'to
See also: wato and 'wa'tö
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *wepeto. Cognate to Yao (South America) ouapoto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [waʔto]
Noun
wa'to
- firewood
- match (for lighting fires)
- Synonym: tüsochaamü
- fire, flame
- Synonym: udinñü
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wa'to”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “wa:'to”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “wāʔto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “tɨsočāmɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021