kasuku

Swahili

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /kɑˈsu.ku/

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

kasuku class IX (plural kasuku class X)

1. 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], volume 46, page 35 of 32–40