Utu
utu
- (v.) to be broken (said of a limb, or a limb-like thing)
- (adj.) broken
- (n.) brokenness
A utu lau.
“My arm is broken.”
Notes: I’ve never broken a bone, to my knowledge (though I think unknowingly [and without ever getting treatment] I may have broken my thumb, my wrist and my ankle). Have you broken a bone? It just sounds awful…
So, in my dictionary, the definition was to “to be broken (as in a limb; not anything else)”, but that’s clearly not true, since this iku shows a broken spear! So I changed the definition slightly. Basically, I extended it metaphorically to cover any limb-like thing (and a spear is pretty limb-like, right?).
And thus the Kamakawi language was saved!
Tags: abstract, body parts, concepts, dangerous, traits