Description:

The term 'otta' has the base meaning of 'cook', and has a lot of uses pertaining to preparing food.

Verb:

As a verb, 'otta' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to cook which takes an ergative chef and an absolutive thing cooked. It is sometimes used in its benefactive happat form where someone cooked for can be added as a dative indirect object. Otherwise, the same information can be conveyed peripherally by introducing the beneficiary with the preposition upána.

Noun:

As a noun, 'otta' has a bewildering array of possible meanings. By itself, it can mean kitchen, stove, oven, range, cooking device, or even (usually non-raw) meal. The sense of 'kitchen' can be specified with the derived form 'ottastep', and the the sense of 'meal' or 'thing cooked' can be specified with the form 'ottaka'. One word for cook for chef is 'ottaca', although this usually refers to a cook who works alone or a subordinate cook in a large kitchen, not to a chef who would usually  be a 'jen'.

The derived form 'ottasyn' is a word for cookery or cuisine, although the borrowed form 'wisin' can also be used in the sense of fancier cookery.

Modifier:

The forms 'ottas' and especially 'ottakas' usually mean 'cooked'.