yaiño

Murui Huitoto

yaiño
Root	Classifier
yai-	-ño

Yaiño.

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto yaiño and Nüpode Huitoto yaiño.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒai̯ɲɔ]
• Hyphenation: yai‧ño

Noun

yaiño

1. sloth (animal)

Declension

Declension of yaiño

	singular	plural
Absolutive	yaiño	—
Nominative	yaiñodɨ	—
Accusative	yaiñona	—
Dative/Locative	yaiñomo	—
Ablative	yaiñomona	—
Instrumental	yaiñodo	—
Causal	yaiñori	—
Privative	yaiñonino	—

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 157
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 178