kusshi

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV kusshi
Brazilian standard kusshi
New Tribes cusshi

Alternative forms

  • kushi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

Noun

kusshi (possessed kusshiyü)

  1. (Caura River dialect) a kind of lightly fermented drink made from cassava

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kusshi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, 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 222, 227, 289, 393:i-kushiyü > *kyushiyü > chushiyü 'his drink' [] [kuši] 'a drink' [] kushi -kushi: -yü 'a drink' [] kushi - beverage
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kuši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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 33:kusi