Meaning:1) eldest born (of a sibling); 2) most able, most skilled, most capable, wisest, most authoratative (of peers, deities or hierarchically structured phenomena), (with -yikǝ 'than') more proficient (at something, -bi 'in'), better (at something, -bi 'in'), superior
Meaning:the higher and smaller of two rectangular platforms suspended on ropes from the ceiling above the fireplace for storing pots and pans and for drying plants and foodstuffs
Comments:many taboos surrounding the dotsem are attributed to the fact that Na:ghɨle:m was born there; cf. hotso.
Meaning:circular hand-driven grinding stone or millstone consisting of two circular slabs lying one atop the other, the upper one equipped with a stick handle and a hole in the centre through which a wooden pivot loosely holds it in place with respect to the slab underneath
Nepali: jāʔto
Derivation:[the element dzagu- (< dza: rice) is allegedly equivalent to Nep. jāʔto; -yɨk < yɨknɨ vt-2a 'turn about, grind' (Nep. ghumāune )]
Comments:the dzagúyɨk, like the pɨnkɨk (q.v.), are believed by the Dumi to have been originally invented by the ancient cannibalistic Rākṣas; cf. dza:ntǝm,yɨkdzu.
