o'taajö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [oʔtaːhə]

Noun

o'taajö (possessed o'taajö)

1. fish that has been caught, food fish

   Synonym: o'tönü

References

• 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