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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *ɨrɨ, *rɨ (“to do, to make, to put”).
Pronunciation
Verb
üdü (transitive)
- to do
- to make
- to put, to place
- to fulfil, to carry out
- to bless
- 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, Lyon, pages 254–255
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 315
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨdɨ̄dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021