katü

See also: katu, katů, and kåtü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	katü
Brazilian standard	katö
New Tribes	catö

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [katɨ]

Noun

katü (possessed katü)

1. fat, grease

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “katü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 228, 386, 392: “cha:tü > *cha:ttü > cha:'tü 'animal fat' […] [ča:'tï] 'animal fat' […] cha:tü 'animal fat' […] cha:'tü 'animal fat' […] cha:tü - animal fat […] ka:tü - my fat”
• 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