jiidi

Fula

Etymology

From Arabic ج د د (j d d).

Noun

jiidi o

1. procreation, descendants, children

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jiidi
Brazilian standard	fiidi
New Tribes	jiidi

Alternative forms

• jüdüi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷiːɾ̠i]

Adverb

jiidi

1. (Caura River dialect) while standing or walking, while upright

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jiidi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 264
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hüdüi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University