jhunu

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *punu (“flesh, meat, body”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [çunu]

Noun

jhunu

  1. muscle, flesh

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