hijip

Volapük

Etymology

From the bound morpheme hi- (he-, male) +‎ jip (sheep) (lit. "he-sheep", cf. he-goat (she-goat), he-wolf (she-wolf); from English he- (hi-) and sheep (jip)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hi.ˈʃip]

Noun

hijip (genitive hijipa, plural hijips)

  1. ram (male sheep)

Declension

Declension of hijip
Singular Plural
Nominative hijip hijips
Genitive hijipa hijipas
Dative hijipe hijipes
Accusative hijipi hijipis
Predicative1 hijipu hijipus
Vocative o hijip o hijips
  1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Synonyms

  • omjip, om-jip (See om-jipas - p. 4, om-jips - p. 9, om-jip - p. 12) [1] (older Original Volapük term, now obsolete)

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

See also

  • hikapar (billy goat)
  • jikapar (nanny goat)
  • kapar (goat)
  • of (she (pronoun)) (-of (she)) (free morpheme as a verbal suffix, e.g., binof (she is))
  • of- (she- (prefix)) (free morpheme with or without a hyphen in Original Volapük)
  • om (he (pronoun)) (-om (he)) (free morpheme as a verbal suffix, e.g., binom (he is))
  • om- (he- (prefix)) (free morpheme with or without a hyphen in Original Volapük)