yatu

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Juba Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Sudanese Arabic ياتو (yātu).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈjatu/, [ˈja.tʊ]

Pronoun[edit]

yatu

  1. which?

References[edit]

  • Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎[1], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 181

Ye'kwana[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • da'tu (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Cariban *jatu (“to burn”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

yatu

  1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to burn

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yatu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[2], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “daʔtwa-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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