daviñevi women: irregular plural of emele ‘woman’
| Part of Speech | noun |
| Phonetic Form | ⁿdaviɲevi |
| Variant Form(s) | da viñevi |
| Proto-Form | POc: *pine 'woman' |
| Lovono Equivalent | veñime |
| Morphology | da= + viñevi |
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- women: irregular plural of emele ‘woman’
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Example 563:
dapa wopine, dapa gete, da viñevi, da meliko…elderly men, young men, women, children…- Example URL
- https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S152
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Example 576:
makone ie da-viñevia women's dance -
Example 577:
namolo ie daviñeviwomen's clothes -
Example 578:
Daviñevi tete li-te ne moe pe li-apinu ene pon.There are three women sitting in the kitchen over there. -
Example 579:
Da viñevi wopine li-ovei pe li-anu kava.Adult women can drink kava. -
Example 580:
Temabete me mawene, li-garei pe daviñevi li-te ene.Women are forbidden from sitting on mats or semi-mats.
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Encyclopedic Info Morph.: Originally da viñevi with plural da= clitic; the dual form is da-tilu viñevi ‘the two women’. The form viñevi sometimes appears in compounds, e.g. da meliko viñevi ‘female children, i.e. girls’.
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