dobeño

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Murui Huitoto[edit]

dobeño
Root Classifier
dobɨ- -ño

Etymology[edit]

Equivalent to dobe (crushing of yucca) +‎ -ño. The use of the feminine classifier refers to the fact that crushing yucca is traditionally a task for women.

Cognates include Minica Huitoto dobeño and Nüpode Huitoto dobeño.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɔbɛɲɔ]
  • Hyphenation: do‧be‧ño

Noun[edit]

dobeño

  1. basin used for crushing unprocessed yuca

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 64
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 76