komoño

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See also: komono and komɔ́nɔ

Murui Huitoto

komoño
Root Classifier
komo- -ño

Etymology

Equivalemt to komo (new) +‎ -ño, referring to the fact that sororal cousins weren't seen as blood relatives.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ko‧mo‧ño

Noun

komoño

  1. female sororal cousin (to a male)

Declension

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 48
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 40