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Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French jumeau (“twin”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jimo
- twin
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
Cognate with Minica Huitoto jimo and Nüpode Huitoto jimo.
The Minica Huitoto and Nüpode Huitoto cognates denote a person knowledgeable of a certain type of tree, suggesting that the original meaning of this root was a kind of tree, of which the Yagua served as local experts.
The sense "night monkey" might be an extension of either the original, or the ethnical sense. In Minica Huitoto, the term jimokɨ also denotes a night monkey, while in Nüpode Huitoto, it denotes a Yagua person instead.
Pronunciation
Root
jimo
- Yagua
- night monkey
Derived terms
References
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 215
Spanish
Verb
jimo
- first-person singular present indicative of jimar