üdü

See also: Appendix:Variations of "udu"

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV üdü
Brazilian standard ödö
New Tribes ödö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ɨrɨ, *rɨ (“to do, to make, to put”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɨɾ̠ɨ]

Verb

üdü (transitive)

  1. to do
  2. to make
  3. to put, to place
  4. to fulfil, to carry out
  5. to bless
  6. Allows a subordinated borrowed verb suffixed with -je to function as a transitive predicate.

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “üdü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, pages 254–255
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 315, 396: “nüdü'ha ~ nüdühha 'he orders it to be done' […] -üdü:- 'to do' […] nüdüha - s/he orders him/her to do it ¶ nüdü:a - s/he does it”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨdɨ̄dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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