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sukuji

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV sukuji
Brazilian standard sukuufi
New Tribes sucuuji

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sukuji (possesed sukujiyü)

  1. spear

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sukuji”, 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 221, 226, 289, 398:[suku:hi] ~ [suqu:hi] 'spear' [] i-su:kuhi:yu > *syu:kuhi:yu > shu:kuhi:yu 'his spear' [] sukuhi -su:kuhi: -yü 'lance, spear' [] suku:hi - lance, spear
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “sukuhi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021