kusshi

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • kushi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kuʃʃi]

Noun

kusshi (possessed kusshiyü)

  1. (Caura River dialect) a kind of lightly fermented drink made from cassava

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kusshi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kushi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kuši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 33: “kusi”
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