jijip

Volapük

Etymology

From the bound morpheme ji- (“she-, female”) +‎ jip (“sheep”) (lit. "she-sheep", cf. she-bear, she-wolf; from a respelling of English she- (“ji-”) and sheep (“jip”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ʃi.ˈʃip]

Noun

jijip (nominative plural jijips)

ewe (female sheep)

Declension

Declension of *jijip*
	singular	plural
nominative	jijip	jijips
genitive	jijipa	jijipas
dative	jijipe	jijipes
accusative	jijipi	jijipis
vocative ¹	o jijip!	o jijips!
predicative ²	jijipu	jijipus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

ofjip (or of-jip, [1]) (older Original Volapük term, now obsolete)

Hypernyms

jip (“sheep”)
nim (“animal”)
sügaf (“mammal”), süganim (“mammal”)

Coordinate terms

hijip (“lit. he-sheep (ram, male sheep)”)
jipil (“small sheep”)
jipül (“lamb (sheep offspring, young sheep)”)

See also

kapar (“goat”)