üdü

See also: udu, uđu, údu, and údů

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ɨrɨ, *rɨ (“to do, to make, to put”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɨɾ̠ɨ]

Verb

üdü (transitive)

1. to do
2. to make
3. to put, to place
4. to fulfil, to carry out
5. to bless
6. Allows a subordinated borrowed verb suffixed with -je to function as a transitive predicate.

Derived terms

• ö'dü
• tüdüemü
• tüdütojo
• üdüjo

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “üdü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], 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^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021