Dumi dictionary : Query result

Entry: dzɨlöm

Grammar: n.

Meaning: flint, flintstone

Nepali: cakmak

Comments: cf. tsipuli.

Entry: dzɨnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vi-4 dzo:-dzɨ-dzuy/dzu

Meaning: be eaten, be edible.

Entry: dzɨnɨ

Grammar: vi-4 dzo:-dzɨ-dzuy/dzu

Meaning: durative aspectivizer affixed to intransitive verb stems

Comments: vide 6.3.6.

Entry: dzoʔdɨme

Grammar: n.

Meaning: cannibal woman.

Entry: dzuʔu

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: cold, chill

Comments: cf. da:pnɨ vt-2a, doknɨ vt-2a (2), dzuʔye:m, lɨnɨ vi-4 (2g), mɨtnɨ vt-2a (4).

Entry: dzuʔye:m

Grammar: adj.

Meaning: cold (of liquids)

Nepali: ciso

Derivation: [< dzuʔu 'cold, chill']

Comments: cf. waʔye:m, wǝmye:m.

Entry: dzunɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-6a dza-dzuy/dzu-dzɨ-dzo

Meaning: 1) eat 2) take an oath (sɨptɨ )

Nepali: 1) khānu

Comments: 2) a Nepali calque, cf. Sɨptɨ dzaNtǝ I'll take an oath (cf. Nep. Kasam khānchu ); cf. mɨnnɨ vt-7 (10).

Entry: dzunɨ

Grammar: vi-6a dza-dzuy/dzu-dzɨ-dzo

Meaning: durative aspectivizer affixed to transitive verb stems

Comments: vide 6.3.6.

Entry: dzunɨmɨl

Grammar: n.

Meaning: food, foodstuffs

Nepali: khāne kurāharū.

Derivation: [eat-ɨNF + p]

Entry: dzunɨN

Grammar: n.

Meaning: moon, moonshine

Nepali: jūn, candra.

Derivation: [? < Nep. jūn 'moon, moonshine']

Entry: e:nɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vi-2 e:-i:y/i:

Meaning: shit, defaecate

Nepali: hagnu

Comments: vide i:npa:nɨ.

Entry: gaNge:rma

Grammar: n.

Meaning: a species of forest bamboo (Nep. ban bāʔs ) found in the Tarāī

Derivation: [<? Nep. ghangāru 'Pyracantha crenulata']

Comments: gaNge:rma saNge:rma [saNge:rma rhyming jingle < saNge:rbu 'Arundinaria aristata'] underbrush and reeds.

Entry: ga:ʔnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: 1) vi-1 ga:/ga:ʔ 2) n.

Meaning: 1) burn (of lamps); 2) light, lamp

Nepali: 1) balnu

Comments: 2) dīpak.

Entry: ga:ro

Grammar: n.

Meaning: wall.

Derivation: [Nep. gāhro ]

Entry: ghaNge:rsɨ

Grammar: n.

Meaning: the thorny Crateagus (Pyracantha) crenulata, not or no longer native to Dumi-speaking territory

Nepali: ghangāru.

Derivation: [attested in Sasarkā only; < Nep. ghangāru + -sɨ 'wood']

Entry: ghɨmi

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: spinning, twirling about, rotation along an axis

Comments: cf. lɨnɨ vi-4 (3d), ranta, rantam, ri:nɨ vi-1.

Entry: ghokta

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: oesophagus, inside of the throat.

Entry: ghupiri

Grammar: n.

Meaning: sacred bamboo species Cephalostachyum capitatum (Nep. gopya bāʔs) which Kirāntīs are said not to be allowed to cultivate, and from which sacred implements and attributes of the Dumi shaman (Nep. dhāmī ) are made

Comments: ghupiri hupiri all species of bamboo, various bamboo types; cf. hibu, hibuna:m, hupiri.

Entry: gi:mnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vi-1 gi:m

Meaning: set (of na:m 'the sun')

Comments: Na:m gi:ma Night has fallen; cf. lɨnnɨ vi-3.

Entry: gɨmnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-1 gɨm

Meaning: brood (eggs)

Nepali: othryāunu

Comments: Phuʔa ɨ-ti: gɨmta The chicken broods its egg; Phuʔa ɨ-tsuʔu lǝndɨ The chicken hatched its chick; cf. sɨmnɨ vt-1.