a'to

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ato"

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	a'to
Brazilian standard	a'to
New Tribes	a'to

Alternative forms

• ato, atto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aʔto]

Noun

a'to (possessed a'totü)

1. rope, twine, string
2. snell (line by which a fishhook is attached)

Derived terms

• atotö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “atto”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 114, 352, 399
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “atootö”, 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, 385: “[da'ṭo'tï] 'string, rope' […] ya:'to'tü […] a:'to - rope, twine”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “āʔto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021