Where does “-anto” come from?

-anto (Ye'kwana) comes from Ye'kwana -anö, from Maquiritari -nö — Nominalizer for intransitive verbs that have no...

Ancestry of “-anto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ye'kwana-anöForms nouns from many postpositions and some (chiefly spatial) adverbs, typically with the sense of ‘one that (is (at)) …’, ‘one that has the quality of …’
2Maquiritari-nöNominalizer for intransitive verbs that have no...
Every word from Maquiritari -nö →Every word from Ye'kwana -anö →