makusa

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV makusa
Brazilian standard makuusa
New Tribes macuusa

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish aguja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [makuːsa]

Noun

makusa

  1. needle

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “makusa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], 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 226, 394: “[maku:sa] 'needle' (from Sp 'aguja') […] maku:sa - needle”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “makūsa”, 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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