kuushi

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • kushi (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cochino.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kuːʃi]

Noun

kuushi

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) pig

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kushi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ku:shi:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kūši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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