üdü

See also: udu, uđu, údu, and údů

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	üdü
Brazilian standard	ödö
New Tribes	ödö

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, Lyon, pages 254–255
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 315, 396: “nüdü'ha ~ nüdühha 'he orders it to be done' […] -üdü:- 'to do' […] nüdüha - s/he orders him/her to do it ¶ nüdü:a - s/he does it”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨdɨ̄dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021