jami (01_Asaxi Nouns (List))
jami
jami
Noun class (warm / cold)
Cold
Pronunciation
IPA: /jami/
Semantic Field
Translations
- English: illness, disease, sickness
- Polish: choroba
Example sentence
Ă wo jami ma. I am ill. (lit. I have illness — a carried condition, possession pattern per 65_Expressing States & Sensations (Source Doctrine).)
Alternative Forms
Null
Etymology
Borrowed from the Dreamer’s memory of Japanese 病み (yami, sickness), conflated with 闇 (yami, darkness) — a textbook case of Fuzzy Etymology: illness as a darkness in the body.
Synonyms
- vivitètá (life-pain; poetic/archaic formation) (potential)
Antonyms
- vigavi (health)
Derived terms
- jamină
- jamishá (a sick person, patient) (potential)