ütö
See also: uto, ütő, and -uto
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɨtə]
Verb
ütö
- (intransitive) to go
- (intransitive) to walk, stroll
Usage notes
This verb takes an irregular suffix -mö in place of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -nto rather than -icho.
The imperative form is also irregular: singular ojone, plural ojonkomo.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ütö(mö)”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 129, 215–216, 230–231
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “i:'chö:dü, wü:tö:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “wɨʔtə̄-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “w-ōhoyma-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021