Appendix:Waikuri word list

Waikuri word list:

Zamponi (2004)

Waikuri vocabulary from Zamponi (2004), which was compiled primarily from 18th-century sources by Johann Jakov Baegert, as well as from Lamberto Hostell and Francisco de Ortega:

Nouns

English gloss	Waikuri	Notes
earth, land	datembà; atembà	lit. ‘arched earth/land’
sky	tekerekádatembà
day	untâiri, untáîri
week	ambúja	‘place where one lives; house; church’
year; pitahaya	ambía
mescal	pui; kenjei, kennei
horse; mule	titschénu-tschà	‘child of a wise mother’
k.o. snake	matanamu	‘light red . . . [snake] with black spots’
k.o. eagle	jatacrie	lit. ‘deer-catcher’
man; person	éte (pl. ti)
woman	ánaï (pl. kánaï)
father	-dáre, -áre (man speaking); -cue (woman speaking)
parent	pera kari
son	-tschánu, -tschénu
shaman	taniti; tantipara
missionary	tià-pa-tù	‘one who has his house in the north'
forehead	-tapà ~ -apà
nose	-inamù
arm; hand	-kére
right arm	-tschuketà
pain	-enembeû
food	búe
place where one lives; house; church	ambúja
ceremonial wand	tiyeicha	lit. ‘he can talk’
dance floor	amaeka
word	-tanía
a song	ambéra didì
a dance	agénari
payment	tenkíe

Pronouns

English gloss	Waikuri	Notes
I	be (subject)
you (sg.)	eï	subject
we	catè	subject
you (pl.)	petè	subject
you (sg.); to you	eï	direct/indirect object
us; to us	kepe	direct/indirect object
mine	becún, beticún	also used adjectivally with alienably possessed nouns
yours (sg.)	ecún, ecùn; eiticún	also used adjectivally with alienably possessed nouns
ours	kepecùn	also used adjectivally with alienably possessed nouns
theirs	kicùn	also used adjectivally with alienably possessed nouns
this one	tâupe
these ones	cávape
that one	tutâu
those ones	tucáva
this same one	tâuvérepe	probably also used as a demonstrative determiner
who?	aipe(e), ci pe
all, everything	pu	also quantifier; cf. 'all'
something	uë
nothing	vâra, buarà

Other parts of speech

English gloss	Waikuri	Notes
great	apánne
good	atacá (pl. atacámma), aata ce; atukià
ugly; bad	entuditù (pl. entuditámma)
washed	kunjukaráü (pl.)
beaten	tschipitschürre (pl. kutipaû)
dead	tibikíu (pl.)
arched	tekereká
alone	íbe
many (?)	pari; cuncari
all	pù
three	akúnju
this	jatúpe, jaûpe
in (a region); from (separation); by means of	pè	preposition
from (source); at the side of; in (time)	me	preposition
of	te	preposition
on, upon	tína	preposition
below	búnju	postposition
on account of	déve; tiptischeû	preposition
acknowledge	akátuikè
be	daï (sg.?); kéa (pl.?)
be ashamed	ié
be bom	pedára
beat	tschípake
become	punjére
believe	irimánju
bury	kejenjùta (pl.?)
can	puduéne
chat	jake (pl. kuáke)
come	ku
command	ïebitschéne
confess	kutéve
die	pibikí (?)
do (cause)	tujakè
fight	piabakè (pl. kupiábake)
forgive	kuitscharrakè, kuitscharaké
give	uteürì, utere; kên
go down, descend	keritschéü
go up	tschukíti
hate	kumbáte
have	atú
help	tikakambà
kiss	tschumuge
know	kériri, rthe risi, kereri
lie (down)	tíe
live	tipè, tipé
make, create	uretì
obey	jebarraké
play	amukíri
praise	tschakárrake
protect	kakunjà
remember	umutù (pl. kumutú)
sit	penekà
stretch out	kutikürre (pl. ?)
suffer	híbitsche
talk	tiyeicha	‘can talk’ ?; cf. 'ceremonial wand'
there is	epí
touch	undiri
wish, desire	cuvu
then	enjéme
above	aëna
from there	aipúreve
and	tschie
as	páe, pàe
imperative particle	têi (sg.); tu (pl.)
no	vâra	‘nothing’; cf. 'nothing'
thanks (?)	payro