wötunnö
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (variant orthography) wätunnä
Etymology
Affixed with w- (intransitive prefix) and -nö (infinitive suffix). The central verbal element is said to be ultimately related to a'deu (“word”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [wətunnə]
Noun
wötunnö
- the mythology and stories of the Maquiritari; the Maquiritari oral tradition
- story, history, tale, myth
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wötunnö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980), David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page vii, 2
- 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, page 1–3