uzuño

Murui Huitoto

Alternative forms

Etymology

From uzu (“grandparent”) +‎ -ño.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈu.θu.ɲɔ]
  • Hyphenation: u‧zu‧ño

Noun

uzuño (plural uzuñonɨaɨ or uzuñuaɨ)

  1. grandmother
  2. great-grandmother
  3. great-great-grandmother etc.

References
  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 252
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 37
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