jatu

Kabuverdianu

Adjective

jatu

1. ridiculous
2. stupid

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

jatu (Cyrillic spelling јату)

1. dative/locative singular of jato

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jatu
Brazilian standard	fatu
New Tribes	jatu

Alternative forms

• jaatu

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷatu]

Noun

jatu

1. duck
   1. the Muscovy duck, Cairina moschata

      Synonym: yuduma

   2. the whistling duck, Dendrocygna sp.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jatu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Ye’kwana nonoodö: yawaadeejudinnha wenhä = Território Ye’kwana: a vida em Auaris‎^[2] (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^[3], 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”