kushi

Esperanto

Verb

kushi (present kushas, past kushis, future kushos, conditional kushus, volitive kushu)

1. H-system spelling of kuŝi

Japanese

Romanization

kushi

1. Rōmaji transcription of くし

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuʃi]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish cochino.

Alternative forms

• kuushi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Noun

kushi

1. (Caura River dialect) pig

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• kusshi (Caura River dialect)

Noun

kushi (possessed kushiyü)

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

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kushi, kusshi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ku:shi:, 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^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kūši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], 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