|
a. |
okhe1 |
khelo2 |
‘male2 |
tiger1
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
or
|
khe-lo10
|
|
|
|
|
151 |
|
ovo |
‘pig’ |
|
|
or |
vo-lo
} |
‘male pig’ |
|
|
|
ovo
khe-lo } |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
152 |
|
osi |
‘dog’ |
| |
|
osi1
khelo2 |
male2
dog1
|
|
|
or |
si-lo |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 153 |
|
korü
|
‘horse’ |
| |
|
korü1
khelo2
|
‘male2
horse1
|
| |
|
|
|
| 154 |
|
kosa |
‘cat’ |
| |
|
kosa1
khelo2 |
male2
cat1
|
| |
|
|
|
| 155 |
|
kolakhie
|
‘fox’ |
| |
|
kolakhie1
khelo2 |
male2
fox1 |
| |
|
|
|
| 155
|
a
|
ozhie |
‘rat’ |
| |
|
ozhie1
khelo2 |
male2
rat1
|
| |
|
|
|
| 156 |
|
ipre |
‘elephant’ |
| |
|
ipre1
khelo2 |
male elephant1
|
|
ovo ‘crab’ or rather cankroids in general
and ova ‘monkey’ behave piquantly differently,
the former taking the human generic gender words
and the latter both the human generic gender word
and the nonbovine nonruminant gender word.
|
| 157 |
ovo |
‘crab’ |
| |
ovo1
pfo o2 |
male2
crab1
|
|
|
10
|
Since this
is a product of okhe+khelo, it is likely
to be confused with its homophone khelo,
the gender marker ; okhe khelo is therefore
preferred to the truncated khe-lo |
| 158 |
ova |
‘monkey’ |
| |
|
|
| |
ova1
pfoo/khelo2 |
‘male2
monkey1
’ |
|
Nonhuman male nonbovine ruminant and insect
: itsü
|
| 159 |
|
oshu
|
‘deer, small
in size and reddish in colour’ |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
oshu1
itsü2 |
‘male2
deer1
|
| |
|
|
|
| 160 |
|
okhro |
‘deer with
big antlers’ |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
okhro1
itsü2 |
male2
deer1
|
| |
|
|
|
| 161
|
a. |
ihĩ |
‘goat’ |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
b. |
ihĩ1
itsü2 |
‘he2
-goat1’ |
|
Intriguingly, a few speakers had ihi)
‘goat’ in the category of nonbovines [the khelo
category] which then becomes the redesignated
category replacing the category ‘nonbovine nonruminants’,
and some had it in the category of bovines [the
phodu category].
|
| |
161 |
a. |
ihĩ |
‘goat’ |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
161 |
c. |
ihi)1
phodu / khelo2 |
he2
-goat1
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Insect
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
162 |
|
homü |
‘housefly’ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
homü
1 itsü2 |
male2
housefly1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
163 |
|
pizha |
‘beetle’ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
pizha1
itsü2 |
male2
beetle1
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Feathered
|
|
|
ridzü
/ -dzü |
|
| biped
: |
|
|
|
|
|
164 |
|
oho |
‘domestic
fowl’ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[o]ho-dzü |
‘male
domestic fowl ; cock’ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
165 |
|
makhrie |
‘dove’ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
*makhrie-dzü
} |
|
|
|
|
|
‘male
dove’ |
| |
|
|
makhrie
ridzü }
|
|
|
