tünküi
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Ye'kwana[edit]
ALIV | tünküi |
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Brazilian standard | tönköi |
New Tribes | töncöi |
historical ad hoc | tingkui |
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tünküi (possessed tünküichü)
- 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[edit]
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tünküi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], 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
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 29–30, 72–73, 80, 81, 133, 149, 221, 243, 244: “tingkui”