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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Noun
tünküi (possessed tünküichü)
- matapee, sebucan; a yuca press in the form of a long tube of basketry hung from a hook and compressed by stretching the lower end with a pole, used for expressing prussic acid out of yuca pulp
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References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tünküi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 110
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 289, 387, 400: “*chünküychü > *chünküytchü > chünküy'chü 'his manioc squeezer' […] tünküi' -tünkü' -chü 'manioc squeezer' […] chünküi'chü - his manioc-squeezer […] tünküi - manioc squeezer”
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 29–30, 72–73, 80, 81, 133, 149, 221, 243, 244: “tingkui”