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^[1], 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^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021