ö'dü

See also: odu and odú

Ye'kwana edit

Presumably from öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ üdü (“to do”).

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.

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö'dü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 254–255
Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ä'dö'da”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ä'dökä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[3], 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^[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021