ö'dü

See also: odu and odú

Maquiritari

Etymology

Presumably from öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ üdü (“to do”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [əʔdɨ]

Verb

ö'dü (intransitive, agentive)

  1. to happen, to occur
  2. to arrive, to get (to)
  3. to speak
  4. to get married
  5. Allows a subordinated borrowed verb suffixed with -je to function as an intransitive predicate.

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ö'dü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 254–255
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “wö'dü:a”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “w-əʔdɨ-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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