yamma

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English

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Noun

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yamma (plural yammas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of llama.
    • 1869, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, Buffon's Natural History, page 89:
      The yamma is variegated in colour, and has long slender legs; all have valuable wool or hair, but that of the alpaca is best known.
    • 1872, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton’s Brave Tales, Bold Ballads, and Travels and Perils by Land and Sea, pages 1008–1009:
      Some, indeed, go still further, saying that there is but one species, and that the Alpaca, Huanaco, and Yamma are but varieties of the Llama.
    • 1885, John George Wood, Popular Natural History, page 240:
      The Yamma, or Llama, is of brown or variegated color, and its legs are long and slender. In former days this animal was the only beast of burden which was possessed by the natives, and it was largely used by the Spaniards (who described it as a sheep) for the same purpose.

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Anagrams

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Choctaw

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Alternative forms

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Pronoun

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yamma

  1. (distal demonstative) that, those
  2. (emphatic) he, she, it, they

Inflection

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emphatic possessive‡
singular paucal plural singular paucal plural
first-person ano
sashno
pishno hapishno ammi pimmi hapimmi
second-person chishno hachishno chimmi hachimmi
third-person yamma ilap
Recent analogous formation in Mississippi Choctaw. Considered substandard.
First- and second-person are archaic in Mississippi Choctaw, where the emphatic pronouns are used for possession instead.

Determiner

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yamma

  1. that, those
  2. (distal demonstrative, with possessed noun) his, her, its, their

Adverb

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yamma

  1. there
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Interjection

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yamma

  1. indeed

See also

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Hausa

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Pronunciation 1

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  • IPA(key): /jâm.má/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [jɛ̂m.mə́]

Noun

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yâmma f (possessed form yâmmar̃)

  1. west

Pronunciation 2

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  • IPA(key): /jâm.máː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [jɛ̂m.máː]

Noun

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yâmmā f (possessed form yâmmar̃)

  1. afternoon

References

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  • Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 223.

Yagara

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Noun

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yamma

  1. arm

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