wa'to

See also: wato, wàto, and 'wa'tö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wa'to
Brazilian standard	wa'to
New Tribes	wa'to

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wapoto. Cognate to Yao (South America) ouapoto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [waʔto]

Noun

wa'to (possessed wa'todü)

1. firewood
2. match (for lighting fires)

   Synonym: tüsochaamü

3. fire, flame

   Synonym: udinñü

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wa'to”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wa:'to”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wāʔto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨsočāmɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021