anötö

See also: anoto and anotó

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	anötö
Brazilian standard	anäätä
New Tribes	anäätä

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [anəːtə]

Noun

anötö (possessed anötöi)

1. fishhook

Usage notes

Hall defines this word once in the form anöötö (with a non-phonemic long vowel) as “fishhook” and once in the form anötö as “fishnet”; the latter definition seems to be in error, unless perhaps the meaning of the word is broad enough to cover both.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “anötö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 112
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “anäätä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “anətə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “anə̄tə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021