katü

See also: katu, katů, and kåtü

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• kaatü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *katɨ (“grease, fat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [katɨ]

Noun

katü

1. (Caura River dialect) fat, grease

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “katü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ka:tü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kātɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021