yatu

Juba Arabic

Etymology

From Sudanese Arabic ياتو (yātu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjatu/, [ˈja.tʊ]

Pronoun

yatu

1. which?

References

• Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎^[1], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 181

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	yatu
Brazilian standard	yatu
New Tribes	yatu

Alternative forms

• dha'tu, da'tu (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *jatu (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟatu]

Verb

yatu

1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to burn

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yatu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “daʔtwa-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021