makusa

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	makusa
Brazilian standard	makuusa
New Tribes	macuusa

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish aguja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [makuːsa]

Noun

makusa

1. needle

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “makusa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 394: “[maku:sa] 'needle' (from Sp 'aguja') […] maku:sa - needle”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “makūsa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021