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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Presumably from öt- (intransitivizer) + üdü (“to do”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ö'dü (intransitive, agentive)
- to happen, to occur
- to arrive, to get (to)
- to speak
- to get married
- Allows a subordinated borrowed verb suffixed with -je to function as an intransitive predicate.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö'dü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 254–255
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ä'dö'da”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ä'dökä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wö'dü:a”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-əʔdɨ-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021