jimo

See also: Jimọ, jimó, jìmò, and jímò

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French jumeau (“twin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒimo/

Noun

jimo

1. twin

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognate with Minica Huitoto jimo and Nüpode Huitoto jimo.

The Minica Huitoto and Nüpode Huitoto cognates denote a person knowledgeable of a certain type of tree, suggesting that the original meaning of this root was a kind of tree, of which the Yagua served as local experts.

The sense "night monkey" might be an extension of either the original, or the ethnical sense. In Minica Huitoto, the term jimokɨ also denotes a night monkey, while in Nüpode Huitoto, it denotes a Yagua person instead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhimɔ]
• Hyphenation: ji‧mo

Root

jimo

1. Yagua
2. night monkey

Derived terms

• jimokɨ
• jimoma
• jimoño
• jimuaɨ

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 215

Spanish

Verb

jimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of jimar