ö'tökö
See also: otoko and ötö'kö
Maquiritari
Etymology
From öjö (irregular alteration of ejö) + -tö (non-third-person plural suffix) + -kö (imperative suffix); the extra -'de from the singular form disappears.
For the initial vowel in the irregular root form *öjö, compare Trió ëepï, Panare ëpï.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [əʔtəkə]
Verb
ö'tökö
- plural imperative of ejö (“to come”)
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ö'tökö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 230–231