üdü

== Ye'kwana == === Etymology === From Proto-Cariban *ɨrɨ, *rɨ (“to do, to make, to put”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ɨɾ̠ɨ] === Verb === üdü (transitive) to do to make to put, to place to fulfil, to carry out to bless Allows a subordinated borrowed verb suffixed with -je to function as a transitive predicate. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “üdü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], 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[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021