jöttü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jöttü
Brazilian standard	fättö
New Tribes	jättö

Alternative forms

• jootü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Hall analyzes the final -tü as a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷəttɨ]

Noun

jöttü (possessed jöttü)

1. (Caura River dialect) intestines

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jöttü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “jhootö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 291, 390: “[oho:tï] 'your(s) intestine' […] ho:tü 'my intestine' […] ho:tü 'intestine' […] ho:tü - my intestine […] hyo:tü - his intestine”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hyōtɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021