da'tu

See also: datu, dátú, and Datu

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• yatu (Caura River dialect)

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^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “daʔtwa-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021