dullo

[verb]

dullo=A=O A know of, learn O; A know, learn that CoCl
auxiliary V-dullo be able to V
dullo-dullo=A=O A can learn O/CoCl

Dullo means ‘know’. It can also mean ‘teach’ with causative auxiliaries. Its object can be a full complement clause (CoCl) rather than a noun phrase. Dullo’s complement clause is not marked by any sort of marker.

Dullo comes from an obsolete noun dunu ‘eyes’ and the obsolete particle lo ‘up to’.

Examples

[#103] Bodo teneto takataka yana yedi, bodo kadde-deye-dullo dodu mede banape noyeke yeleke.

[#7] Tenewa dullo-wolami.

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