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Entry: cɔkna:N
Grammar: n.
Meaning: second younger sibling of the same sex as ego
Derivation: [< na:N younger sibling, same sex as ego]
Comments: cf. na:N, pɛnna:N.
Entry: cɔmmaʔ, -cɔnd-/-cɔn-
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: shove, push; give a push with one's hand
Comments: mɛndzɔnʔɛʔ! Don't shove!; cf. cɔtmaʔ, immaʔ, phɛNmaʔ, phɛpmaʔ, phimmaʔ (2).
Entry: cɔmmaʔ, -cɔps-/-cɔm-
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: boil dry, drain (a field).
Derivation: [caus. < cɔpmaʔ dry up]
Entry: cɔNdzɔN
Grammar: adj.
Meaning: (with yam 'body') recuperated, feeling better
Comments: anchɛnnulle ɛn ciʔ kuyam cɔNdzɔN lɔʔ mu He says that today he's feeling a little bit better than yesterday; cf. lɔʔmaʔ (10).
Entry: cɔ:Nghik
Grammar: adv.adj.
Meaning: turned-up like a pig's nose
Comments: kunbho:pɛn cɔ:Nghik po:N His nose gets like a pig's nose, i.e. He turns his nose up at it.
Entry: cɔpmaʔ, -cɔb-/-cɔp-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vi.
Meaning: dry up, dry out, evaporate
Comments: ho:rik cɔbɛ Your skin has dried out; cwaʔlin cɔp The water will evaporate; cf. cɔmmaʔ, he:maʔ.
Entry: cɔtchiNmaʔ
Grammar: vr.
Meaning: budge, move from one place to another
Derivation: [< cɔtmaʔ push from one place to another]
Comments: nam mɛse:knɛn - sɔpmaN se:k, sɔpmaN kha:kmiʔl cɔtchiN The sun's not shining - It'll start shining in a second, the cloud will move.
Entry: cɔtmaʔ, -cɔtt-/-cɔt-/-cɔʔl
Grammar: vi.
Meaning: be on time, be early; be fast, be quick
Comments: khɛnɛʔ sa:rik kɛdzɔttɛ You've come rather early; aNga cɔʔlɛ I'm quick; (with infinitive) be quick; aNga laNghe:kmǝ cɔʔlɛ I walk quickly; pa:pmǝ kɛdzɔʔl You're talking fast; lo:kmǝ kɛdzɔʔl! You're running too fast!; cf. su:maʔ.
Entry: cɔtmaʔ, -cɔtt-/-cɔt-/-cɔʔl
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: push from one place to another
Derivation: [dir. < cɔmmaʔ shove]
Comments: phɔgʔna kɛdzɔttwi:? - kɔN phɔgʔna kɔtna aNga cɔttuN Did you move the lohoṭā? - I pushed this lohoṭā over here; cf. immaʔ, immaʔ, phɛNmaʔ, phɛpmaʔ, phimmaʔ (2,3), phipmaʔ.
Entry: cuʔmaʔ, -cur-/-cut-/-cuʔl
Grammar: vi.
Meaning: 1) be finished, be completed; 2) terminative aspectivizer with intransitive verbs.
Comments: 2)vide 5.3.1; cf. suʔmaʔ
Entry: cuciʔ
Grammar: adv.
Meaning: a little bit.
Entry: cuḍe:l
Grammar: n.
Meaning: spirit of a young unmarried Indo-Aryan (pe:nima) woman who has died
Derivation: [< Nep. cuḍel]
Comments: she haunts men with whom she has had an illicit love affair or whom she has loved or who have loved her. Like a female sugup, a cuḍe:l only frequents places where men are and avoids the company of living women.
Entry: cukma
Grammar: n.f.
Meaning: 1) little one, pre-pubescent female child; 2) as a term of address to young girls by either male or female speakers
Derivation: [f. of cukpa small]
Comments: 2) cf. cukpa, hɛndzaʔ
Entry: cukmaʔ, -cukt-/-cuk-
Grammar: vi.
Meaning: come out, appear (of phɔkwa 'blisters')
Comments: phɔkwa cuktɛba A blister has come up.
Entry: cukmaʔ, -cukt-/-cuk-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vi.
Meaning: be small.
Entry: cukpa
Grammar: adj.
Meaning: small.
Derivation: [cuk < cukmaʔ be small + -pa nom.sf.]
Entry: cukpa
Grammar: n.
Meaning: 1) little one, pre-pubescent male child; 2) as a term of address to young boys, to be used only by female speakers
Derivation: [< cukpa small]
Comments: 2) cf. cukmaʔ, hɛndzaʔ
Entry: cuksa
Grammar: adj.
Meaning: tiny.
Derivation: [< cukpa small + *-sa dim.sf.]
Entry: culeosi
Grammar: n.
Meaning: fancy S-shaped implement for cutting foodstuffs, equipped with a flat wedge fixed perpendicularly to the base of the blad and a talisman or bauble hanging from an eye at the tip of the blade. The flat wedge is held to the ground by foot, and the user sits on the ground in front of the culeosi and cuts the meat or vegetables by pushing them away from himself through the blade
Derivation: [< Nep. culeosī]
Comments: the culeosi's cutting edge is on the near side of the blade.
Entry: culo:
Grammar: n.
Meaning: stove, oven, fireplace encased in a rectangular structure built up of clay with a hole or holes on top
Derivation: [< Nep. cuhlo]
Comments: as opposed to the indigenous Limbu household fireplace consisting of three haʔluN, q.v.
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