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Esperanto
Verb
kushi (present kushas, past kushis, future kushos, conditional kushus, volitive kushu)
- H-system spelling of kuŝi
Japanese
Romanization
kushi
- Rōmaji transcription of くし
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish cochino.
- kuushi (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Noun
kushi
- (Caura River dialect) pig
Etymology 2
Noun
kushi (possessed kushiyü)
- (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, 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021