jhunu

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV jhunu
Brazilian standard jhunu
New Tribes ijunu

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *punu (flesh, meat, body).

Pronunciation

Noun

jhunu

  1. muscle, flesh

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “junu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hyunu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hyunu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 218:junu