tünküi

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [tɨŋkɨj]

Noun

tünküi (possessed tünküichü)

  1. matapee, sebucan; a yuca press in the form of a long tube of basketry hung from a hook and compressed by stretching the lower end with a pole, used for expressing prussic acid out of yuca pulp

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tünküi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 110
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
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