o'taajö

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Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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From o'tö (to fish) +‎ -ajö (perfective past nominalizer).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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o'taajö (possessed o'taajö)

  1. fish that has been caught, food fish
    Synonym: o'tönü

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “o:'ta:hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “nākukwāno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021