kamo
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Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
kamo
Maori[edit]
Noun[edit]
kamo
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
kȁmo (Cyrillic spelling ка̏мо)
Wauja[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kamo
- sun
- Kamo inyatapai.
- [The] sun is hot.
- Kamo iya paponaku.
- [The] sun sets. (Lit., the sun enters [his] house.)
- Kamo putukapai paponanakutsa.
- [The] sun rises. (Lit., the sun emerges from [his] house.)
- Kamo tapokeheneingeu.
- [It] is twilight. (Lit., the sun disappears, is extinguished.)
- Kamo yumekepei.
- [The] sun is in eclipse. (Lit., the sun is menstruating.)
- Kamo inyatapai.
- time (of day)
- Kanai itsapai kamo?
- Q: What time is it? (Lit., Where [in the sky] is the sun?)
- Kamotojojokapai aitsu.
- A: We are at noon. (Lit., [The] sun is exactly straight [above] us.)
- Kanai itsapai kamo?
- wristwatch, clock, timepiece
- Okanutapiyaitsapai okamoja.
- On [his/her/its] wrist was [his/her/its] watch.
- Okanutapiyaitsapai okamoja.
Inflection[edit]
Possession of kamo
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Usage notes[edit]
- When referring to the sun, kamo is obligatorily unpossessed. When referring to a wristwatch or clock, it can show possession.
- Kamo is the heavenly body seen in the sky, and also a culture hero of ancient times, when the world was new. Kamo in Wauja stories is always a male figure, even though during a solar eclipse the sun is said to menstruate.
References[edit]
- Acácio Tadeu de Camargo Piedade, "From Musical Poetics to Deep Language: The Ritual of the Wauja Sacred Flutes" (In Burst of Breath: Indigenous Ritual Wind Instruments in Lowland South America, 2011, ISBN 0803220928), p. 243
- Languages of the Amazon (2012, ISBN 0199593566), page 170
