wötunnö

Maquiritari

Alternative forms
  • (variant orthography) wätunnä

Etymology

Affixed with w- (intransitive prefix) and -nö (infinitive suffix). The central verbal element is said to be ultimately related to a'deu (“word”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [wətunnə]

Noun

wötunnö

  1. the mythology and stories of the Maquiritari; the Maquiritari oral tradition
  2. story, history, tale, myth

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wötunnö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980),  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page vii, 2
  • Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 1–3
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