tünküi dhedümmai

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tünküi dhedümmai
Brazilian standard	tönköi dhedömmai
New Tribes	töncöi dhedömmai

Etymology

From tünküi dhedü (“yuca press frame”) +‎ mma (“house”) +‎ -i (possessed suffix), literally “house of the yuca press frame”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɨŋkɨj ðeɾ̠ɨmmaj]

Noun

tünküi dhedümmai

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) building where yuca is squeezed in a press (tünküi) and processed into yuca flour

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 400: “tünküi dedümmai - house where manioc flour is made”