uzuño

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Murui Huitoto[edit]

uzuño
Root Classifier
uzu- -ño

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Cognates include Minica Huitoto uzungo.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈuθuɲɔ]
  • Hyphenation: u‧zu‧ño

Noun[edit]

uzuño (collective uzuñonɨaɨ, vocative uzu)

  1. grandmother

Declension[edit]

(rare, sometimes proscribed):

References[edit]

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 252
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 37