Murui Huitoto edit

komoma
Root Classifier
komo- -ma

Etymology edit

Equivalent to komo (new) +‎ -ma, referring to the fact that sororal cousins weren't seen as blood relatives.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɔmɔma]
  • Hyphenation: ko‧mo‧ma

Noun edit

komoma

  1. male sororal cousin (to a male)

Declension edit

References edit

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[1] (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.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 40