rafue

Murui Huitoto

rafue
Root	Classifier
raa-	-fue

Etymology

Cognate with Minica Huitoto rafue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾaɸuwɛ]
• Hyphenation: ra‧fu‧e

Noun

rafue

1. celebration, feast
2. story, message, account
   • 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:1, page 5:

     Jesucristo rafuena omoɨmo cue lloiacana jira, naimɨe comɨnɨna nano lloitɨcue.

     Because of my wanting to tell you of the story of Jesus Christ, I will first tell of his people.

Declension

Declension of rafue

	singular	plural
Absolutive	rafue	rafuiaɨ
Nominative	rafuedɨ	rafuiaɨdɨ
Accusative	rafuena	rafuiaɨna
Dative/Locative	rafuemo	rafuiaɨmo
Ablative	rafuemona	rafuiaɨmona
Instrumental	rafuedo	rafuiaɨdo
Causal	rafueri	rafuiaɨri
Privative	rafuenino	rafuiaɨnino

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 209
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 218