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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From tünküi dhedü (“yuca press frame”) + mma (“house”) + -i (possessed suffix), literally “house of the yuca press frame”.
Pronunciation
Noun
tünküi dhedümmai
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) building where yuca is squeezed in a press (tünküi) and processed into yuca flour
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 400: “tünküi dedümmai - house where manioc flour is made”