yami

Hanunoo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jaˈmi/ [jɐˈmi]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: ya‧mi

Determiner

yamí (Hanunoo spelling ᜬᜫᜲ) (literary)

  1. our (exclusive)
    Synonym: kanmi

Pronoun

yamí (Hanunoo spelling ᜬᜫᜲ) (literary)

  1. ours (exclusive)
    Synonym: kanmi
  2. to us; of us; by us (exclusive)
    Synonym: kanmi

See also

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 289

Japanese

Romanization

yami

  1. Rōmaji transcription of やみ

Pukapukan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *masi by metathesis, either from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)qasin (“salty”) or *maŋsit (“stench”).

Noun

yami

  1. dish made from decayed coconut
  2. food
    Synonyms: kai, popoa
    Na tangi te tamá ki tona matua ki tana yami.
    That child cried to his parent for some food.

Derived terms

  • yamiyami (“something to eat”)

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.