yumi

From Japanese 弓 (“yumi”)

yumi (plural yumis or yumi)

1. A type of archery bow from Japan.

• Miyu

yumi

1. celestial water : water from the sky, i.e. rainwater, or — under certain circumstances — water from a river which is used in making manioc beer
2. a gourd used for gathering river-water to use to make manioc beer

• entza (water from the earth, e.g. from a river)

• Philippe Descola, In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia (1996, →ISBN, page 36: "Like other Amazonian groups, the Achuar make a clear lexical distinction between celestial water, yumi, and terrestrial water, entza (Levi-Strauss 1964: 195). Yumi designates the rainwater […] . Entza is both water from the river and the river itself; it is the clear water of fast-flowing streams, the brown boiling flood waters, the slack, low waters of the river, and the stagnant waters of the swamps. By some curious paradox, the Achuar use yumi to designate the cooking water used in making manoic beer and for boiling the tubers; and yet they fetch this celestial water from the river in a gourd they also call yumi."

yumi

1. water

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN

yu + mi

yumi

1. first person multiple plural inclusive pronoun; you, more than one else and I

• yumitupela

• mipela
• mitripela
• mitupela
• yumipela
• yumitripela
• yumitupela

yumi m (plural yumis)

1. yumi (Japanese longbow)

yumi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ゆみ

yumi

1. Alternative form of iumi

yumì

1. refined manners or modest behavior (especially of a young woman)
2. softness or tenderness to the touch (of texture)

• (refined manners): hinhin

yu + mi

yumi

1. the first person inclusive: the speaker and the person(s) being spoken to: you and I, you and me, we two, us two, we
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:2:

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yu + mi

yumi

1. the first person dual inclusive: the speaker and the person being spoken to: you and I, you and me, we two, us two, we