naiñaiño

Murui Huitoto

naiñaiño
Root Classifier
nai- -ñaiño

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnai̯ɲai̯ɲɔ]
  • Hyphenation: nai‧ñai‧ño

Noun

naiñaiño (collective naie)

  1. she, that woman
    • 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:1, page 5:
      Ñaiñaiñona ollena, David mɨcorɨ Urías mɨcorɨna jobaimemo orede.
      To get her, the late David sent the late Uriah to war.

Declension

Declension of naiñaiño
singular plural
absolutive naiñaiño
nominative naiñaiñodɨ
accusative naiñaiñona
dative/locative naiñaiñomo
ablative naiñaiñomona
instrumental naiñaiñodo
causal naiñaiñori
privative naiñaiñonino

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 187
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 205