Dumi dictionary : Query result

Entry: saktɨm

Grammar: n.

Meaning: cubit, the part of the arm from the elbow up to and including the hand.

Entry: saktɨmtha:p

Grammar: n.

Meaning: cubit as a unit of measure. Although the Dumi cubit is equivalent in length to the western cubit, provided the same individual is doing the measuring, the techniques of measuring the Dumi and the western cubit are different: Whereas the western cubit is traditionally taken as the distance between a person's elbow and the tip of the middle finger, the Dumi cubit is measured with a balled fist and is taken as the distance from the elbow to the fist which, held face-down on the surface being measured, is subsequently rolled over up to the metacarpo-phalangeal joints, the large knuckles of the hand.

Derivation: [saktɨm 'cubit' + tha:p < tha:pnɨ vt-2a 'measure']

Entry: saldim

Grammar: n.

Meaning: sweat, perspiration

Nepali: pasīnā

Derivation: [attested in Sasarkā only]

Comments: vide saNkhi:m.

Entry: sali

Grammar: n.

Meaning: nail, talon

Nepali: nan%

Derivation: [attested in Sasarkā only]

Comments: vide syendi.

Entry: salim

Grammar: n.

Meaning: 1) wife's younger sister; 2) younger brother's wife's younger sister

Derivation: [< Nep. sālī 'wife's younger sister' + -m nom. sf.]

Comments: 1) cf. me:ʔe; 2) cf. delme.

Entry: salo

Grammar: (voc. sala) n.

Meaning: 1) wife's younger brother; 2) younger brother's wife's younger brother

Derivation: [< Nep. sālo (voc. sālā ) 'wife's younger brother']

Comments: 1) cf. me:ʔe; 2) cf. delme.

Entry: sam

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: spirit, mood

Comments: cf. pha:knɨ vt-1 (2), pha:kNsinɨ, soknɨ vi-3, soknɨ vt-3.

Entry: sambɨ-khi:bɨ

Grammar: n.

Meaning: Tibetan mastiff, large black dog with brown paws and muzzle used by cis-Himalayan Tibetans, but not by the Dumi, as a watchdog and for herding yaks

Nepali: bhoṭe kukur.

Entry: samlɨ

Grammar: n.

Meaning: story, fable, myth

Nepali: kahānī, kathā

Derivation: [< sam 'soul']

Comments: cf. ri:lɨ.

Entry: samlɨ-momlɨ

Grammar: n.

Meaning: orally transmitted text, myth, story, narrative

Nepali: kathā-kahānī.

Entry: sampha:kNsinɨ

Comments: vide pha:kNsinɨ.

Entry: sampheʔlu

Grammar: n.myth.

Meaning: 1) the Omniscient Stone, one of several epithets for the mythological omniscient stone described as a shiny, polished perfectly flat slab of stone (Nep. cyāpṭo ḍhun%gā ); the stone of yári:-tsɨʔ́ri: 'True Knowledge'; 2) the mystic mountain in whose interior the secrets of creation are divulged to the shaman in dreams

Derivation: [< sam 'spirit', lu 'stone']

Comments: cf. tsɨʔ́ri:lu, yári:lu.

Entry: samphep

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: a flat, shiny stone used in conjunction with a rɨtsɨlu as a hard surface for grinding spices

Nepali: silauṭā.

Entry: samsam

Grammar: n.

Meaning: exorcism, propitiation of spirits by a shaman at a healing ceremony

Derivation: [< sam 'spirit']

Comments: cf. kha:pkor, mɨnɨ vt-6a (5).

Entry: samsir

Grammar: n.

Meaning: welfare, well-being, comfort.

Derivation: [< sam 'soul']

Entry: samtsu

Grammar: n.

Meaning: speaking man, conscious man, human being, humankind.

Derivation: [sam 'spirit' + -tsu < tsuʔu 'child']

Entry: samtsu-mi:ntsu

Grammar: n.

Meaning: mankind, humankind.

Derivation: [samtsu 'speaking man' + mi:ntsu 'manchild']

Entry: saNge:rbu

Grammar: n.

Meaning: bamboo species Arundinaria aristata, not or no longer native to Dumi-speaking areas

Nepali: mālin%go.

Derivation: [-bu 'bamboo']

Entry: saNge:rma

Grammar: n.

Meaning: a jingle rhyming with gaNge:rma 'Pyracantha crenulata' which occurs in the expression gaNge:rma saNge:rma 'underbrush and reeds'.

Derivation: [ < saNge:rbu 'Arundinaria aristata']

Entry: saNkhi:m

Grammar: n.

Meaning: sweat, perspiration

Nepali: pasīnā

Derivation: [< khi:m 'spit']

Comments: Hɨplo wǝm tsɨkta ki saNkhi:m lǝsta. It's really hot and [we're] sweating; cf. saldim.