Meaning:wooden churning road with baffled stirring blades at the bottom, for churning nudak (yoghurt) to yield khyu (ghee) and mɔi (whey). The nudak is churned in an earthenware jug with a narrow opening by pulling to and fro strings wound about the top of the rod, causing the rod to spin
Comments: Nep. mandhanī.
Entry:phɛyuN
Grammar:n.
Meaning:handle of a phɛdza, q.v.
Derivation:[< *phɛ metal + yuN handle]
Entry:phiʔco:ʔ
Grammar:n.
Meaning:falcon.
Entry:phiʔmaʔ, -phiʔr-/-phiʔ-
Grammar:vt.
Meaning:dent
Derivation:[caus. < piʔmaʔ dent]
Comments:mɛbhiʔru They dented it.
Entry:phikmaʔ, -phikt-/-phik-
Grammar:vi.
Meaning:talk loudly, talk with raised voice
Comments: Nep. cicyāunu.
Entry:philiNge:
Grammar:n.
Meaning:shiny black seeds pounded to make a type of yumlakpa.
Meaning:1) strangle 2) squeeze something out, squeeze the juice out of something (eg. kudzaʔ fruit, ho:ʔ furuncle, yaNghe:k wound); 3) depress (a lever, eg. a ḍhiki, q.v.); 4) co:ʔco:ʔ phimmaʔ vide mɛpma (3).
Comments:1) ku-sikla-ʔo:phind-u-N (his-throat-LOC strangle-3P-1sA) I strangled him; ku-sikla-ʔo:mɛ-bhind-umɛ-sɛʔr-u mu (his-throat-LOC nsAS-strangle-3P nsAS-kill-3P REP) It is said that/They say that they strangled him to death; khɛNmǝna:nphindu He strangled that man; 2) cf. cɔmmaʔ,immaʔ,phɛpmaʔ,phipmaʔ3) cf. phɛNmaʔ
Entry:phi:maʔ, -phi:r-/-phi:-
Grammar:vi.
Meaning:grow thin
Comments:ku-sappo:k-ʔinphi:r-ɛ (his-stomach-ABS grow thin-PT) He's gotten thin; mɛn-nu-bakudza-:nkɛ-dzɔgɔrɔkɛ-bhi:ʔl,kɛ-n-dzɔ-nɛngɔrɔkɛ-bhi: (NEG-good food-ABS 2-eat if 2-have diarrhoea, 2-NEG-eat-NEG if 2-grow thin) If you eat bad food you'll get diarrhoea, if you don't eat you'll get thin; cf. phi:maʔ.
Entry:phi:maʔ, -phi:s-/-phi:-
Grammar:vt.
Meaning:1) cause to grow thin, let grown thin; 2) deflate
Derivation:[caus. < phi:maʔ grow thin]
Comments:1) sappo:k-ʔinkɛ-bhi:s-u (stomach-ABS 2-let get thin-3P) You're letting yourself get thin 2) laNpho:Ngaphi:suN I deflated the football.
Entry:phi:mmaʔ, -phi:nd-/-phi:n-
Grammar:vt.
Meaning:sweep away
Derivation:[caus. < pimmaʔ jump up]
Comments:khɛNlɛ:Nwa:nphi:nd-ɛʔde:s-ɛʔ! (that puddle-ABS sweep away-IMP dispatch-IMP) Sweep that puddle away!
Meaning:extract, pull out, take out (any long object such as nails, teeth, pins which are rooted in or have been driven into something else), extirpate
Derivation:[caus. < pi:Nmaʔ q.v.]
Comments:waphe:ʔillekuyuNinphi:ksuNba I took off the sickle's handle; cf. a:Nmaʔ.
Entry:phi:pmaʔ, -phi:tt-/-phi:t-/-phi:ʔl
Grammar:vi.
Meaning:have diarrhoea
Comments:mɛn-nubakudza-:nkɛ-dzɔgɔrɔkɛ-bhi:ʔl (NEG-good food-ABS 2-eat if 2-have diarrhoea) If you eat bad food, you'll get diarrhoea.
Entry:phipmaʔ, -phitt-/-phit-/-phiʔl
Grammar:vt.
Meaning:1) pinch; 2) (with huk hands) press one's hands between one's thighs or under one's armpits (eg. for warmth)