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

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kushi
Brazilian standard	kushi
New Tribes	cushi

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

Noun

kushi (possessed kushiyü)

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) Alternative form of kusshi (“a kind of lightly fermented drink made from cassava”)

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, page 289
• 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