eima

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Icelandic

Etymology

From eimur (steam).

Pronunciation

Verb

eima (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative eimaði, supine eimað)

  1. to distill

Conjugation

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV eima
Brazilian standard eima
New Tribes eima

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Verb

eima

  1. (transitive) to smoke (tobacco)

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “eima”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-eima-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021