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From Latin mūtus .
mudu m sg (feminine singular muda , neuter singular mudo , masculine plural mudos , feminine plural mudes )
mute
From Proto-Central-Pacific *mutu , from Proto-Oceanic *mutu , from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mutu .
mudu
cut off
shortened
mudu m
( first-person dual ) we , the two of us
From Sanskrit मृदु ( mṛdu ) ; see there for more.
mudu
supple
mudu (feminine singular muda , masculine and feminine plural mudi )
Alternative form of mutu ( sonorized, dialectal )
-mudu (infinitive kumudu )
to be able to do something; to manage or handle something
Conjugation of -mudu
Positive present
-na mudu
Subjunctive
-mudu
Negative
-mudu
Imperative singular
mudu
Infinitives
Imperatives
Tensed forms
Habitual
humudu
Positive past
positive subject concord + -li mudu
Negative past
negative subject concord + -ku mudu
Positive present (positive subject concord + -na mudu)
Singular
Plural
1st person
ni namudu/na mudu
tu namudu
2nd person
u namudu
m namudu
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
a namudu
wa namudu
other classes
positive subject concord + -na mudu
Negative present (negative subject concord + -mudu )
Singular
Plural
1st person
si mudu
hatu mudu
2nd person
hu mudu
ham mudu
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
ha mudu
hawa mudu
other classes
negative subject concord + -mudu
Positive future
positive subject concord + -ta mudu
Negative future
negative subject concord + -ta mudu
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -mudu )
Singular
Plural
1st person
ni mudu
tu mudu
2nd person
u mudu
m mudu
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
a mudu
wa mudu
other classes
positive subject concord + -mudu
Negative subjunctive
positive subject concord + -si mudu
Positive present conditional
positive subject concord + -nge mudu
Negative present conditional
positive subject concord + -singe mudu
Positive past conditional
positive subject concord + -ngali mudu
Negative past conditional
positive subject concord + -singali mudu
Perfect
positive subject concord + -me mudu
"Already"
positive subject concord + -mesha mudu
"Not yet"
negative subject concord + -ja mudu
"If/When"
positive subject concord + -ki mudu
"If not"
positive subject concord + -sipo mudu
Consecutive
kamudu / positive subject concord + -ka mudu
Consecutive subjunctive
positive subject concord + -ka mudu
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.
From Proto-Cariban *nuru ( “ tongue ” ) .
mudu
tongue
Cáceres, Natalia (2011 ) “mudu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana [1] , Lyon
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988 ) “ñu:du”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib , volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
Hall, Katherine (2007 ) “ɲūdu ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series [2] , Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021