onu

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) eye

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) day

Etymology
Via earlier from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), originally a derivative from the same root as.

Noun

 * 1) uncle

Etymology
Likely from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Possibly related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) mouth

Etymology
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Pronoun

 * 1) one, someone, they

Usage notes

 * Used more extensively than the 🇨🇬, used in a lot of places where English would use (general you).

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) neck

Etymology
From ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) eye

Etymology
Coined in 2004 by science fiction and fantasy writer Jacek Dukaj, in his book titled Perfect Imperfection. Comparable to Polish on, ona, oni, and ono.

Pronoun

 * 1) they (nonstandard, third-person singular nominative, non-binary pronoun)

Pronoun

 * 1) him, her, it

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) his wife
 * Wajamani oputapai paowa onupei, Apaipua onupei, paitsupalu. "Nowan, pinyupei katouhan," Yumekeju wiu, umapai Wajamani. Apaipua iya oukala ja onaatsiu, Yehinaku outsa!! Oukaka onupei, oukaka taunapai Wauja oputankan sekunya.
 * Wajamani gave as a wife to his nephew — as a wife to [his nephew] Apaipua — his own daughter. "My nephew, take this one as your wife," Wajamani said, referring to Yumekeju. [So] Apaipua went to fetch her from there, from the Mehinaku village! That's how [she] became his wife, and that's how she came to stay in the Wauja village long ago.
 * Kitsimain iya panupei sukuti yiu. Omalanyaintsa, iya kalahan, kuyekuyeju...
 * Irixulakume eu whun, a-MU-naun wiu. A-MU-naun whun. Iyawi yiu. Itsa kala onu katouhan.
 * Mepiaunwaun onu?
 * Mepiaunwaun onu.
 * [Storyteller:] First he took as his wife Sukuti (Green Parakeet Woman). After that, he took that one, Kuyekuyeju (Dusky Parrot Woman)…
 * That was Irixulakuma (Blue Cotinga Bird). [He] was a chief, [he] was. Chief [of his village]. He took them [in marriage]. [So] his wives were this many [holds up fingers].
 * [Audience member:] Two wives?
 * [Storyteller:] Two wives.

Usage notes

 * -nu is a bound morpheme and must always have a possessive prefix, answering the question "whose wife"? In other words, this noun is obligatorily possessed, and must show possession by someone. In the Wauja way of thinking, a wife is always somebody's wife (just as a husband is always somebody's husband).

Noun

 * 1) spider