Evenki edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Manchu ᠪᡳᠮᠪᡳ (bimbi).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bimiː/
  • Hyphenation: би‧ми

Verb edit

бимӣ (bimī)

  1. (copulative) to be
  2. (intransitive) to be
  3. (intransitive) to live

References edit

  • Vasilevič, G. M. (1958) “би-мӣ”, in Эвэнкийско-Русский словарь [Evenki-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: GIS