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Ye'kwana
- kushi (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Pronunciation
Noun
kusshi (possessed kusshiyü)
- (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”