jijip

Volapük

Etymology

From the bound morpheme ji- (“she-, female”) +‎ jip (“sheep”) (lit. "she-sheep", cf. she-bear, she-wolf; from a respelling of English she- (“ji-”) and sheep (“jip”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃi.ˈʃip]

Noun

jijip (genitive jijipa, plural jijips)

1. ewe (female sheep)

Declension

Declension of jijip

	singular	plural
nominative	jijip	jijips
genitive	jijipa	jijipas
dative	jijipe	jijipes
accusative	jijipi	jijipis
vocative 1	o jijip!	o jijips!
predicative 2	jijipu	jijipus

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

Synonyms

• ofjip (or of-jip, [1]) (older Original Volapük term, now obsolete)

Hypernyms

• jip (“sheep”)
• nim (“animal”)
• sügaf (“mammal”), süganim (“mammal”)

Coordinate terms

• hijip (“lit. he-sheep (ram, male sheep)”)
• jipil (“small sheep”)
• jipül (“lamb (sheep offspring, young sheep)”)

See also

• kapar (“goat”)