okupona

Noun

 * 1) name esp. a personal name identifying a specific person or place
 * Katsa umapai pityupona?
 * What is your name?
 * Aitsa nagatapai okupona. Numatukojo.
 * I do not utter his name. [He's] my father-in-law.
 * Kanai katou no?
 * Katsa onai ha yi, tya! Itsatai yai nu jano... Itsatai jano han, itsatai han. Katebe agatakona okupwona nejo ya han, umakona, aitsa wa han.
 * [Audience member interrupting a storyteller:] Where was this, anyway? [Where did it happen?]
 * [Storyteller:] Where indeed! I wonder myself. What I have told you is all that I know... That's how the story goes, that's just how it is. It's not as if long ago people spoke the name of that place, as if they said, that indeed is the name. It's not like that.

Usage notes

 * This noun is obligatorily possessed. That is, the noun must be inflected to identify who is the possessor.