kasuku

Swahili

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Noun

kasuku class IX (plural kasuku class X)

1. African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus)

References

• Krumm, Bernhard (1932) Wörter und Wortformen orientalischen Ursprungs im Suaheli‎^[1] (in German), Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter & Co. m.b.H., →DOI, →ISBN, pages 77–78
• Walsh, Martin (2019) “Cockatoos and crocodiles: searching for words of Austronesian origin in Swahili”, in Kenya Past and Present‎^[2], number 46, pages 32–40