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Kabuverdianu
Adjective
jatu
- ridiculous
- stupid
References
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
jatu (Cyrillic spelling јату)
- dative/locative singular of jato
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
|
jatu
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| Brazilian standard
|
fatu
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| New Tribes
|
jatu
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish pato.
Pronunciation
Noun
jatu
- duck
- the Muscovy duck, Cairina moschata
- Synonym: yuduma
- the whistling duck, Dendrocygna sp.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jatu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Ye’kwana nonoodö: yawaadeejudinnha wenhä = Território Ye’kwana: a vida em Auaris (overall work in Ye'kwana and Portuguese), São Paulo: ISA – Instituto Socioambiental, 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 91: “faatu”
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ha:tu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “hātu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 37: “juatu”