dobeño

Murui Huitoto

dobeño
Root	Classifier
dobɨ-	-ño

Etymology

Equivalent to dobe (“crushing of yucca”) +‎ -ño. The use of the feminine classifier refers to the fact that crushing yucca is traditionally a task for women.

Cognates include Minica Huitoto dobeño and Nüpode Huitoto dobeño.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdɔbɛɲɔ]
Hyphenation: do‧be‧ño

Noun

dobeño

basin used for crushing unprocessed yuca

Declension

Declension of *dobeño*
	singular	plural
absolutive	dobeño	dobeñuaɨ
nominative	dobeñodɨ	dobeñuaɨdɨ
accusative	dobeñona	dobeñuaɨna
dative/locative	dobeñomo	dobeñuaɨmo
ablative	dobeñomona	dobeñuaɨmona
instrumental	dobeñodo	dobeñuaɨdo
causal	dobeñori	dobeñuaɨri
privative	dobeñonino	dobeñuaɨnino

References

Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 64
Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 76