Catching up a bit. These Buruya Nzaysa words are still in line with the topic for last week:
Lexember 4th:
yanavo (n.) ‘grip, handle, knob, loop, lug, hook’
Usa! Ese ɔ yɔsko ntɛlólmu obɔ! Dəña’o pɔ’ɔ ni lu mlu oskə o lu kɛlbo adɔ o lu yanavo tsiba.
hello // EMPH.COP-1SG INDEF.ACC glad GER-visit of.2 // please COND.AUX-2SG into.3 DEF.ACC house come and DEF.ACC coat POSS.2 at.3 DEF.ACC holding_device attach
“Hello! I’m happy to see you! Would you please come in and hang your coat on the wardrobe?”
Etymology:
yanavo is formed from the verb
yana ‘cling to, hold fast, retain’ with the agent/instrument suffix
-vo. The base verb is borrowed from Tlaliolz
yan (
posted by Radius on Lex 2nd).
‘Grip, handle, knob, loop, lug, hook’ may seem like a pretty disparate list of meanings for a single word. But
yanavo can indeed refer to all of these, and as you can see from the example sentence, it can also mean ‘wardrobe’. It’s a very generic word for basically any device that one can hold on to, or that can help holding other things. (It’s similar to the German
Halterung in this regard, although the meaning is not exactly the same.) If you want to specify what kind of holding device you have in mind, you’ll have to add a modifier noun to narrow down the semantics, for instance
yanavo kwɛña ‘lug, eyelet’ (lit. ‘ring-shaped holding device’) or
yanavo ntəspo ‘bitt, bollard (naut.)’ (lit. ‘holding device for boats’).
Lexember 5th:
mvayo (n.) ‘group; collection; category’
Etymology: A contraction of Ndak Ta
omba dikon ‘many things’.
Lexember 6th:
mɛlɛdu (n.) ‘member (of a group or category)’
Etymology: Borrowed from Fáralo
meledu ‘that which is included’.
Lexember 7th:
mɛda (v.) ‘have an opinion about, assess, deem, review’
Etymology: Ntak Ta
ngwâi ta ‘think-
DYNAMIC’.
Derived terms:
ñamɛ́da (n.) ‘opinion, conviction, credo’
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