ssoto

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wɨtoto (“person”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ssoto]

Noun

ssoto (Cunucunuma River dialect)

  1. person, human
  2. Ye'kwana speaker, Ye'kwana, Maquiritari
  3. twenty

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sotto”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ssoto”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ssoto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “so’to”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
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