tautau

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Kanuri tàutáu (“spider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /táu.tàu/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [táu.tàu]

Noun

tautàu m (possessed form tautàn)

1. a kind of long-legged spider
2. A skin rash thought to be caused by drinking water in which a spider has died.

References

• Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˌta.u.ˈta.u]

Verb

tautau

1. (stative) to be steady, fixed

Conjugation

Conjugation of tautau
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totautau	fotautau	mitautau
2nd	notautau	nitautau
3rd	Masculine	otautau	itautau, yotautau†
Feminine	motautau
Neuter	itautau
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tá.ú.tá.ú/

Ideophone

táútáú

1. (of earth, climate etc.) bone-dry; arid; parched

   Antonym: gbingbin

   Ó ti gbẹ táútáú. ― It has completely dried.