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kumaleil

Phonetic
[ku.ma.le.ˈil]
English: Translation
Midwife
Spanish: Translation
Comadre
Part of Speech
noun
Semantic Domain
Humans, Social Relations and Organization
Noun Class
Préstamo integrado. Sustantivo inalienable
Example Sentence
Jun k'ak'al ti antse, la ba la slo'iltabe skumale ti k'usi tspasananbate, oy k'usi ta mukul laj yalbe sbaik jech te ba snak' sbaik ti bu nopol sti' moke, yu'un ba smalaik ti muk'ta sepsep pixjol vinike, k'alal laj ya'ik x-avan xa xtok ti vinike: —¡Kumaleee!, ¡kumaleee!, ¡kumaleee!, li' oy jchepuk asi'.
English: Example Sentence
One day, in a whisper, she told her midwife what was happening to her, so the two hid to wait for the big hat man. Suddenly, they heard the voice: "Midwife! Midwife! Midwife! Here I leave you the log of firewood.".
Spanish: Example Sentence
Un día, entre susurros le contó a su comadre lo que le estaba pasando, así que las dos se escondieron para esperar al hombre de sombrero grande. De pronto, escucharon la voz: —¡Comadre! ¡Comadre! ¡Comadre! Aquí le dejo su leño.
Plural form
Kumaleiletik
Dialect
Huixtán
Zinacantán
Venustiano Carranza
San Andrés Larrainzar
Morphology
Comadre (esp.) > Kumale + -il
Notes

Al poseerse se quita -il.