sortu
Basque edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown.
Verb edit
sortu da/du (imperfect participle sortzen, future participle sortuko, short form sor, verbal noun sortze)
- (da) to originate, to emerge, to be born
- (du) to create, to conceive, to invent, to found, to produce
Derived terms edit
- sor-mark (“birthmark”)
- sor-mintzaira (“mother tongue”)
- sor-seinale (“birthmark”)
- sorberritu
- sorbide
- sorburu (“origin”)
- sorgailu
- sorgarri
- sorgune
- sorkari
- sorketa (“creation”)
- sorkunde
- sorkuntza
- sorkura
- sorleku
- sormen
- sorraldi
- sorrarazi
- sorrarazle
- sorrera
- sortalde (“east”)
- sortegun
- sorterri
- sorterro (“lineage”)
- sortetxe
- sortzaile (“creator”)
- sortze (“creation”)
- sortzetik
- sortzetiko
Etymology 2 edit
From sor (“deaf, numb”) + -tu
Verb edit
sortu da/du (imperfect participle sortzen, future participle sortuko, short form sor, verbal noun sortze)
Further reading edit
Sranan Tongo edit
Etymology edit
From English sort or borrowed from Dutch soort.
Noun edit
sortu
- sort, kind, type
- 2011, José Paulo Ribeiro, Rafael da Silva Oliveira, Wortubuku Sranantongo para brasileiros[1], FUNAG, page 178:
- Sortu wroko yu e du?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)