da'tu

See also: datu, dátú, and Datu

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *jatu (“to burn”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [daʔtu]

Verb

da'tu

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

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