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Ye'kwana
- tu'kui (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *tukuti; compare Apalaí tukuxi, Kari'na tukusi, Trió tukui, Wayana tukui, Akawaio tukui, Macushi tukui, Pemon tukui, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Lokono tukusi.
Pronunciation
Noun
tukui
- the sparkling violetear, Colibri coruscans
- hummingbird in general
- the Mexican vine snake, Oxybelis aeneus
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tukui”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “tukui”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 126
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tu'kui”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “tukui”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN