jami (01_Asaxi Nouns (List))


jami

jami

Noun class (warm / cold)

Cold

Pronunciation

IPA: /jami/

Pitch Accent

  • Morae: ja · mi
  • Pattern: H · L
  • Class: lexical

Semantic Field

Smntc_Field Health & Medicine

Translations

  • English: illness, disease, sickness
  • Polish: choroba

Example sentence

Example 1

Alternative Forms

Null

Etymology

Borrowed from the Dreamer’s memory of Japanese 病み (yami, sickness), conflated with (yami, darkness) — a textbook case of Fuzzy Etymology: illness as a darkness in the body.

Synonyms

  • vivitètá (life-pain; poetic/archaic formation) (potential)

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • jamină
  • jamishá (a sick person, patient) (potential)