iyoi

Ayoreo

Noun

iyoi

1. blood

Usage notes

• This term is naturally possessed (some references use the phrases "inalienably possessed" or "obligatorily possessed", though this is not entirely accurate), but can be made unpossessed by the application of the depossessive prefix diqu-, hence beyoi (“your blood”) becomes diqu-iyoi (“blood (in general)”).

References

• Pier Marco Bertinetto, Ayoreo (Zamuco). A grammatical sketch, Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguistica della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 8 (2009), page 41