cifazif

Volapük

FWOTD – 18 September 2020

Etymology

Compound of cifa +‎ zif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.faˈt͡sif/, [t͡ʃi.faˈt͡sif], [d͡ʒi.faˈd͡zif]

Noun

cifazif (nominative plural cifazifs)

1. capital city
   • 1958, "Jit", Volapükagased, no. 2, page 7.

     Ävisitom cifazifis tala, ämafidom jitis kuranas, regas, lampöras - ab läbikum no ävedom.

     He visited the capital cities of the Earth, tried on shirts of courtiers, monarchs, emperors - but he did not become happier.

Declension

declension of cifazif

	singular	plural
nominative	cifazif	cifazifs
genitive	cifazifa	cifazifas
dative	cifazife	cifazifes
accusative	cifazifi	cifazifis
vocative 1	o cifazif!	o cifazifs!
predicative 2	cifazifu	cifazifus

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