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Marshallese
Etymology
Borrowed from English soap, from Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).
Pronunciation
- (phonetic) IPA(key): , (enunciated)
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /tʲɛwɛpˠ/
- Bender phonemes: {jeweb}
Noun
joob (construct form joobin)
- soap
References
Southeastern Tepehuan
Etymology
Cognate with Northern Tepehuan oóvi.
Noun
joob (plural jajoob)
- opossum (clarification of this definition is needed)
References
- R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48) (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 90–91