ütö

See also: uto, ütő, and -uto

Maquiritari

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɨtə]

Verb

ütö

  1. (intransitive) to go
  2. (intransitive) to walk, stroll

Usage notes

This verb takes an irregular suffix -mö in place of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -nto rather than -icho.

The imperative form is also irregular: singular ojone, plural ojonkomo.

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ütö(mö)”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 129, 215–216, 230–231
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “i:'chö:dü, wü:tö:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “wɨʔtə̄-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “w-ōhoyma-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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