tüsochaamü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From t- +‎ soicha (“to scratch”) +‎ -a +‎ -mü (patient nominalizer), thus literally ‘the one to be scratched’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɨsoːt͡ʃaːmɨ]

Noun

tüsochaamü

1. match (for lighting fires)

   Synonym: wa'to

References

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