hijip

Volapük

Etymology

From the bound morpheme hi- (“he-, male”) +‎ jip (“sheep”) (lit. "he-sheep", cf. he-goat (she-goat), he-wolf (she-wolf); from English he- (“hi-”) and sheep (“jip”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hi.ˈʃip]

Noun

hijip (nominative plural hijips)

1. ram (male sheep)

Declension

Declension of hijip

	singular	plural
nominative	hijip	hijips
genitive	hijipa	hijipas
dative	hijipe	hijipes
accusative	hijipi	hijipis
vocative 1	o hijip!	o hijips!
predicative 2	hijipu	hijipus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

• omjip, om-jip (See om-jipas - p. 4, om-jips - p. 9, om-jip - p. 12) [1] (older Original Volapük term, now obsolete)

Hypernyms

• jip (“sheep”)
• nim (“animal”)
• sügaf (“mammal”), süganim (“mammal”)

Coordinate terms

• jijip (“ewe (female sheep)”)

Related terms

• jipil
• jipül
• hojip (“wether, castrated ram”)

See also

• hikapar (“billy goat”)
• jikapar (“nanny goat”)
• kapar (“goat”)
• of (“she (pronoun)”) (-of (“she”)) (free morpheme as a verbal suffix, e.g., binof (“she is”))
• of- (“she- (prefix)”) (free morpheme with or without a hyphen in Original Volapük)
• om (“he (pronoun)”) (-om (“he”)) (free morpheme as a verbal suffix, e.g., binom (“he is”))
• om- (“he- (prefix)”) (free morpheme with or without a hyphen in Original Volapük)