tünküi

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV tünküi
Brazilian standard tönköi
New Tribes töncöi
historical ad hoc tingkui

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tünküi (possessed tünküichü)

  1. matapee, sebucan; a yuca press in the form of a long tube of basketry hung from a hook and compressed by stretching the lower end with a pole, used for expressing prussic acid out of yuca pulp

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tünküi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 110
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 289, 387, 400:*chünküychü > *chünküytchü > chünküy'chü 'his manioc squeezer' [] tünküi' -tünkü' -chü 'manioc squeezer' [] chünküi'chü - his manioc-squeezer [] tünküi - manioc squeezer
  • Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 29–30, 72–73, 80, 81, 133, 149, 221, 243, 244:tingkui