upí

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Central Tarahumara

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Etymology

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Cognate with Mayo juubi (wife), Southeastern Tepehuan ubii (woman), O'odham ʼuwĭ, ʼuvĭ (woman).

Noun

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upí (plural jubí)

  1. wife
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References

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  • Hilton, K. Simón (1993) Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 101)‎[1] (in Spanish), special corrected and updated edition, Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 76
  • Hilton, K. Simón with Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado[2] (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, page 54