guiye

Murui Huitoto

guiye
Root	Classifier
guiye-	—

Etymology

From gui- (“to eat”) +‎ -ye.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡui̯d͡ʒɛ]
• Hyphenation: gui‧ye

Noun

guiye (uncountable)

1. food
2. future verbal noun of guite: the future eating

Declension

Declension of guiye

	singular	plural
absolutive	guiye	—
nominative	guiyedɨ	—
accusative	guiyena	—
dative/locative	guiyemo	—
ablative	guiyemona	—
instrumental	guiyedo	—
causal	guiyeri	—
privative	guiyenino	—
sequential	guiyenona	—

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 100
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 135