*kumi-

=Proto-Sucumian=

Etymology
Loaned from Old Sumrë kumi ("tame, domestic, occupied"). Initially it was loaned via early Sucumians showing Sumnė shamans how they work with Cumbric Whales to hunt whales which to the shamans seemed as if the Cumbric Whales were tame like their dogs, when in fact they were heither tame nor domestic. Proto-Sucumian came to use the word to refer to any animal that interacts with humans. Interestingly the word in Old Sumrë is also where the name for the nation Sukumi is from (and hence where the exonym Sucumian is from)

Pronunciation

 * /ˈku.mi/

Adjective
*kumi Polysyllabic Stem
 * Comparative: *kumiku
 * Inanimate *kumixo
 * 1) (of animals) interacting with humans

Noun
*kumi animate Polysyllabic Stem
 * Collective: *kumimim
 * 1) A wild animal that intereacts with humans