tüsochaamü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV tüsochaamü
Brazilian standard tösoochaamö
New Tribes tösoochaamö

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [tɨsoːt͡ʃaːmɨ]

Noun

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tüsochaamü

  1. match (for lighting fires)
    Synonym: wa'to

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 228, 400:[tïṣoča:mị̈] 'match, light for the fire' [] [tïṣoča:mụ̈] 'match, light' [] tüsocha:mü - light, matches
  • 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