hijip

Volapük

Etymology

From the bound morpheme hi- (“he-, male”) +‎ jip (“sheep”) (lit. "he-sheep", cf. he-goat (she-goat), he-wolf (she-wolf); from English he- (“hi-”) and sheep (“jip”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [hi.ˈʃip]

Noun

hijip (nominative plural hijips)

ram (male sheep)

Declension

declension of hijip

	singular	plural
nominative	hijip	hijips
genitive	hijipa	hijipas
dative	hijipe	hijipes
accusative	hijipi	hijipis
vocative ¹	o hijip!	o hijips!
predicative ²	hijipu	hijipus

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

Synonyms

omjip, om-jip (See om-jipas - p. 4, om-jips - p. 9, om-jip - p. 12) (older Original Volapük term, now obsolete)

Hypernyms

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

Coordinate terms

jijip (“ewe (female sheep)”)

Related terms

jipil
jipül
hojip (“wether, castrated ram”)

See also

hikapar (“billy goat”)
jikapar (“nanny goat”)
kapar (“goat”)
of (“she (pronoun)”) (-of (“she”)) (free morpheme as a verbal suffix, e.g., binof (“she is”))
of- (“she- (prefix)”) (free morpheme with or without a hyphen in Original Volapük)
om (“he (pronoun)”) (-om (“he”)) (free morpheme as a verbal suffix, e.g., binom (“he is”))
om- (“he- (prefix)”) (free morpheme with or without a hyphen in Original Volapük)

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