Dumi dictionary : Query result

Entry: poksim

Grammar: n.

Meaning: millet, after it has been fermented and the millet beer has been squeezed out of it, used as fodder for the swine

Nepali: chokrā

Comments: cf. ɨmma, tsampɨ.

Entry: poksö

Grammar: n.

Meaning: piglet.

Derivation: [< poʔo 'pig']

Entry: potnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-2a pot-puts/pus

Meaning: 1) trade, exchange, switch 2a) (with non-referential third singular agent agreement) change 2b) (non-referential third singular agent agreement and patient agreement with mintǝ 'thoughts' or minnɨ 'thinking') change one's mind 3) so:m potnɨ (so:m 'breath') breathe

Nepali: 1) sāṭnu; 3) sās baṭali garnu

Comments: 2a) Potta It will change (Nep. badalincha); 2b) O:mintǝ potɨ I changed my mind (Nep. mero socāī badaliyo ); ɨminnɨ potɨ He's changed his opinion [on the matter] (Nep. Usko vicār badaliyo); cf. thɨtnɨ vt-2a (2), li:tnɨ vt-4 (2).

Entry: pu

Grammar: n.

Meaning: father

Comments: cf. papa.

Entry: puma

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: flower

Nepali: phūl.

Entry: pu:sta

Grammar: n.

Meaning: a generation (both as a collective reference to all the members of a generation or age-group as well as a measure of time).

Entry: pusaim

Grammar: n.

Meaning: husband of paternal aunt

Comments: cf. nini.

Entry: pye:l

Grammar: n.

Meaning: vermiform appendix.

Entry: pyernɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-2a pyerd/pyer-pi:r

Meaning: pinch with tweezers

Nepali: cyāpnu.

Entry: pyǝknɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-2a pyǝkt/pyǝk-pyǝkh/pyǝk

Meaning: braid, plait (e.g. do:sǝm, do: 'hair')

Comments: cf. ri:pnɨ vt-2 (1).

Entry: ram

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: fleshly body, limbs

Comments: cf. riram; cf. Limbu yam.

Entry: rambha

Grammar: n.

Meaning: lichen, moss

Nepali: jhyāu.

Derivation: [ʔ< ram 'body']

Comments: the Dumi hold that primordial man wore lichen attached above the loins by means of khikɨ 'glue' prior to the discovery of the craft of weaving by the mythological To:ma at Halẽsī Ḍāʔḍā

Entry: rambham

Grammar: n.

Meaning: lichen, moss.

Derivation: [rambha + -m nom.sf.]

Entry: raŃke:ni

Grammar: n.

Meaning: 1) the large-bodied, grey robust variety of the long-tailed Hanuman or common langur, Presbytis entellus, with shaggy greyish beige mains 2) myth., the god raŃke:ni

Nepali: 1) ḍheḍhu

Comments: 1) cf. tsokpɨ; 2) vide 1.5.

Entry: ranta

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: twirling, twirling motion

Comments: cf. ghɨmi.

Entry: rantam

Grammar: n.adj.

Meaning: twirling, spinning; any twirling or spinning object, e.g. a carkhā or pin%

Derivation: [ranta 'twirling' + -m nom.sf.]

Comments: cf. mɨtnsinɨ.

Entry: ra:li

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: centipede, millepede.

Entry: ra:pnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-2a ra:pt/ra:p-ra:ph/ra:p

Meaning: fence off

Nepali: bārnu.

Entry: remmɨtnɨ

Grammar: vt-2a rem mɨd/mɨt-mɨts/mɨs

Meaning: cool something off

Nepali: selāi lagāunu.

Derivation: [causativized remnɨ 'cool off']

Entry: remnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vi-3 ri:m-rem

Meaning: cool off

Nepali: selāunu.

Comments: Dza: ri:mta, kö ri:mta The rice is getting cold, the vegetables are getting cold; Dza: ri:ma The rice has gotten cold