dadi

dadi

1. (Mpakwithi) fast

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

• IPA^(key): /da di/

dadi (plural dadiwo)

1. cat^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.di/
• Rhymes: -adi
• Hyphenation: dà‧di

dadi m

1. plural of dado

• addi', addì

dadi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ダディ

dadi

1. Romanization of ꦢꦢꦶ

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.dɪ/

dadi

1. plural of dada

From Hindi दादी (dādī).

• IPA^(key): /dadi/

dadi

1. paternal grandmother

   Synonym: granmer

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /da.di/
• Rhymes: -di
• Homophone: dadhi
• Hyphenation: da‧di

dadi

1. to become
2. to be born

• > Javanese: ꦢꦢꦶ (dadi) (inherited)

• "dadi" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

From Javanese ꦢꦢꦶ (dadi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.di/

dadi (Jawi دادي)

1. (intransitive) to happen, occur, come about
2. (transitive) to become

   odadi kolano ― he becomes the king

3. (auxiliary) to be possible; to be able to, to be capable of

   una otagi dadi ua ― he cannot go

   una hoi ngara, odadi ua ― he cannot open the door

   mina mogolaha meja ge dadi ― she can make that table

   modadi ― she can

This auxiliary generally follows the main verb, thought it may rarely precede. It may take the subject clitics (o, mo, etc.) only either for emphasis or when dadi is used as the sole verb in a sentence.

Conjugation of dadi
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	todadi	fodadi	midadi
2nd	nodadi	nidadi
3rd	Masculine	odadi	idadi, yodadi†
Feminine	modadi
Neuter	idadi
† - archaic

dadi (Jawi دادي)

1. therefore, thus

   dadi, ngofa ge opoha ri ua ― therefore, the child could not endure it any longer

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Likely from Ternate dadi (“to become”), from Javanese ꦢꦢꦶ (dadi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪a.d̪i/

dadi

1. (transitive) to become

   nidadi puni ― you became an evil spirit

   madadi sangaji ― he became a sangaji

The verb dadi ("to become") takes the same verbal prefixes that stative verbs do.

Conjugation of dadi (stative verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tidadi	midadi	adadi
2nd person		nidadi	fidadi
3rd person	inanimate	idadi	didadi
	animate	madadi
imperative		—, dadi	—, dadi

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics

Variant orthographies

ALIV	dadi
Brazilian standard	dadi
New Tribes	dadi

• daadi (Brazil)

• IPA^(key): [daɾ̠i]

dadi

1. the genip tree, Genipa americana or Genipa spruceana

   Synonym: tununu

2. a transparent sticky oil or resin extracted from the genip tree, used as a black bodypaint when mixed with soot from the cassava grills (jütadi)

   Synonym: tununu

See the notes at tununu.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “dadi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “daadi”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[3], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “caruto (tununu)”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 40: “dadi”