Badul nouns: daut

Etymology

From Middle Badul daut, from Old Badul dawt, from Vulgar Ucerian davht, from Ucerian damt, from Areric damet, from Proto-Bintic *dametos. Cognate with Narn dafad (sheep, singular).

daut

Pronunciation

• (stressed)
  • IPA: /daʊt/

• (unstressed)
  • IPA: /dəʊt/

• Rhymes: -aʊt

Definition

Noun

daut (nominative, accusative plural datu, genitive plural date, dative plural dati)

1. a sheep.

   Lag na datu an toyani.

   The sheep stayed in their pens.

Derived terms

kurdaut

1. one who follows and acts blindy.

From Yeroguri kör, blind + Badul daut, sheep.

Notes

The word daut has an irregular plural. In Badul, plurals end in -an but this word's plural ends in a u. This dates back to Ucerian, where nouns with the -u stem had the accusative singular plural suffix of -u. For some reason it took over its nominative counterpart -ae. It kept this old plural construction due to its high usage. Even when the regular plural suffix changed, it was still kept and using the new plural suffix didn't feel correct.

Declension

Declension of daut

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
nominative	bir daut	whil datu
accusative	bir daut	whil datu
genitive	bir daut	whil date
dative	bir daut	whil dati
Definite
	Singular	Plural
nominative	an daut	na datu
accusative	an daut	na datu
genitive	an daut	na date
dative	an daut	na dati