jimatan

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Volapük

Etymology

ji- (“she-, female”) +‎ matan (“spouse”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

jimatan (nominative plural jimatans)

wife
- 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:
  Blibolös nog boso! jimatan oba okömof onu.
  Please stay for a moment, my wife is coming right away.

Declension

declension of jimatan

	singular	plural
nominative	jimatan	jimatans
genitive	jimatana	jimatanas
dative	jimatane	jimatanes
accusative	jimatani	jimatanis
vocative ¹	o jimatan!	o jimatans!
predicative ²	jimatanu	jimatanus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hypernyms

matan (“spouse”)

Coordinate terms

himatan (“husband”)

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