sunuji

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	sunuji
Brazilian standard	sunuufi
New Tribes	sunuuji

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sunuːhʷi]

Noun

sunuji

1. small gourd (typically either of the Cucurbitaceae family or the calabash Crescentia cujete)

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sunuji”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• 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 41: “sunuji”
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 237: “sunuje”