ütö

See also: uto, utó, utó-, ütő, and -uto

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• üttö, ü'tö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tô (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɨtə]

Verb

ütö

1. (intransitive) to go
   • 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (CtoWoshi.005), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 355:

     ¿Össa küntaakö tüwü?

     Where was he going?

2. (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 öjöne, plural ojonkomo.

Derived terms

• ütaajö

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ütö(mö)”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 129, 215–216, 230–231
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “i:'chö:dü, wü:tö:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes 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^[2], 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^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021