Dumi dictionary : Query result

Entry: ańnamma-átsimma

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: in the future, at some time in the future.

Derivation: [ańnamma 'next year' + atsimma 'the year after next']

Entry: ańnamma, namma

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: next year

Comments: cf. adzǝNkhini, annamma-atsimma, atsimma, khoʔo.

Entry: antsi

Grammar: pro.

Meaning: you (dual).

Entry: antsɨ

Grammar: pro.

Meaning: we (dual exclusive).

Entry: a:lnɨ

Grammar: vt-1 a:l

Meaning: unglue, unstick, separate things which are stuck together or otherwise attached to each other; remove (e.g. khǝ́tap 'a scab')

Nepali: ukkāunu.

Entry: a:nnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-2a a:nd/a:n-a:nts/a:s

Meaning: return, bring back, take back

Nepali: pharkāunu

Comments: cf. a:ńsinɨ.

Entry: a:ńsinɨ

Grammar: vr.non-erg.

Meaning: come back, go back, return

Nepali: pharkanu.

Derivation: [< a:nnɨ 'bring back']

Entry: a:nsunɨ

Grammar: vt-2a a:n vt-6a sa-suy/su-sɨ-so

Meaning: escort back.

Derivation: [dimittively aspectivized a:nnɨ 'bring back']

Entry: a:rkɨ

Grammar: n.

Meaning: Kiranti eau-de-vie, millet brandy, distilled from ɨmma (q.v.)

Nepali: raksī.

Entry: a:tnɨ

Grammar: vi-3 a:ts/a:s-a:t

Meaning: 1) (irr. takes ergatively marked subject), say 2) impendent pseudo-aspectivizer

Nepali: bhannu

Comments: 1) Hammɨlʔa hamʔa:tsɨm boʔo aNa mǝtsuktunǝ, mǝkukhunǝ I did not understand and I did not grasp what they said; Bi:kta a:tsɨm go:ta The fact that we were going to give him some means that we must have some somewhere (lit. that there must be some); Aniʔa a:tsinim tɨmlo ɨma mǝtsɨktɨnǝ tsa He appears not to have been aware of the matter you have related; 2) vide 6.3.12.

Entry: a:tnɨkǝ

Grammar: sub.

Meaning: subordinator marking end of quote, subordinator marking subordinate object clause

Derivation: [a:t-nɨ-kǝ say-ɨNF-pfG, lit. 'having said']

Comments: possibly a calque from Nepali; cf. bhanera.

Entry: ápe:

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: already, before

Nepali: aghi

Comments: Ape: Nǝ akuphɨ? Did you already do the winnowing? ; Nep. aghi.

Entry: ápe:khini

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: already, before, just

Nepali: aghi nai.

Derivation: [ape: 'before' + -khini 'last, recent' (cf. adzǝNkhini, atinã:khini )]

Entry: ápe:m

Grammar: adj.

Meaning: that of before, last, recent, former, as before.

Derivation: [ape: 'before' + -m nom.sf.]

Entry: appe:bhu

Grammar: n.

Meaning: the tree Ficus religiosa

Nepali: pīpal ko boṭ

Derivation: [< -bhu 'tree']

Comments: cf. munambhu.

Entry: apsi

Grammar: n.

Meaning: gum, resin

Nepali: khoṭo.

Entry: apsibhu

Grammar: n.

Meaning: the tree Pinus roxburghii

Nepali: sallā ko rukh

Derivation: [apsi 'gum, resin' + -bhu 'tree']

Comments: cf. wasɨmbhu.

Entry: arghe:li

Grammar: n.

Meaning: Daphne canabina, plant from which the so-called Daphne paper (Nep. Nepālī kāgat ) is made, used by the Dumi to make ri:bha 'rope'

Nepali: arghelī

Comments: cf. khubo.

Entry: arɨm

Grammar: adj.

Meaning: other

Derivation: [arɨ < Nep. arū 'other' + -m nom.sf.]

Comments: cf. arkɨ.

Entry: arkɨ

Grammar: adj.

Meaning: other

Derivation: [< Nep. arko 'other']

Comments: cf. arɨm.