yamma

yamma

English

Noun

yamma (plural yammas)

1. Obsolete spelling of llama
   • 1869, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, Buffon's Natural History, page 89:

     The yamma is variegated in colour, and has long slender legs; all have valuable wool or hair, but that of the alpaca is best known.

   • 1872, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton’s Brave Tales, Bold Ballads, and Travels and Perils by Land and Sea, page 1008–1009:

     Some, indeed, go still further, saying that there is but one species, and that the Alpaca, Huanaco, and Yamma are but varieties of the Llama.

   • 1885, John George Wood, Popular Natural History, page 240:

     The Yamma, or Llama, is of brown or variegated color, and its legs are long and slender. In former days this animal was the only beast of burden which was possessed by the natives, and it was largely used by the Spaniards (who described it as a sheep) for the same purpose.

References

• Yamma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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Choctaw

Alternative forms

• yʋmma (traditional)

Pronoun

yamma

1. (distal demonstative) that, those
2. (emphatic) he, she, it, they

Inflection

	emphatic			possessive‡
	singular	paucal	plural	singular	paucal	plural
first-person	ano sashno†	pishno	hapishno	ammi	pimmi	hapimmi
second-person	chishno	hachishno		chimmi	hachimmi
third-person	yamma			ilap
† Recent analogous formation in Mississippi Choctaw. Considered substandard. ‡ First- and second-person are archaic in Mississippi Choctaw, where the emphatic pronouns are used for possession instead.

Determiner

yamma

1. that, those
2. (distal demonstrative, with possessed noun) his, her, its, their

Adverb

yamma

1. there

Related terms

• yammak (“then”)

Interjection

yamma

1. indeed

See also

• ilappa (“this, here”)

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Yagara

Noun

yamma

1. arm

References

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.