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Murui Huitoto
Etymology
Equivalemt to komo (“new”) + -ño, referring to the fact that sororal cousins weren't seen as blood relatives.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ko‧mo‧ño
Noun
komoño
- 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