chuuta

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃuːta]

Noun

chuuta (possessed chuutai)

1. tree
2. forest
3. forested mountain

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “chuuta”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “chu:ta”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “čūta”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 220