jemɨ

Murui Huitoto

jemɨ
Root Classifier
jemɨ-

Etymology

Cognate with Minica Huitoto jemɨ and Nüpode Huitoto jemɨ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɛmɯ]
  • Hyphenation: je‧mɨ

Noun

jemɨ (collective jemɨnɨaɨ)

  1. brown woolly monkey

Declension

Declension of jemɨ
singular plural
absolutive jemɨ jemɨaɨ
nominative jemɨdɨ jemɨaɨdɨ
accusative jemɨna jemɨaɨna
dative/locative jemɨmo jemɨaɨmo
ablative jemɨmona jemɨaɨmona
instrumental jemɨdo jemɨaɨdo
causal jemɨri jemɨaɨri
privative jemɨnino jemɨaɨnino
sequential jemɨnona jemɨaɨnona

Synonyms

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 130
  • Katarina Izabela Wojtylak (2015), “Fruits for Animals: Hunting Avoidance Speech Style in Murui (Witoto, Northwest Amazonia)”, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, volume 41, number 41, pages 545-562
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 79