kushi

Esperanto

Verb

kushi (present kushas, past kushis, future kushos, conditional kushus, volitive kushu)

  1. H-system spelling of kuŝi

Japanese

Romanization

kushi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of くし

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV kushi
Brazilian standard kushi
New Tribes cushi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kuʃi]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish cochino.

Alternative forms

  • kuushi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Noun

kushi

  1. (Caura River dialect) pig

Etymology 2

Noun

kushi (possessed kushiyü)

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) alternative form of kusshi (“a kind of lightly fermented drink made from cassava”)

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kushi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ku:shi:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kūši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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