tukui

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• tu'kui (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tukuti; compare Apalaí tukuxi, Kari'na tukusi, Trió tukui, Wayana tukui, Akawaio tukui, Macushi tukui, Pemon tukui, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Lokono tukusi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tukuj]

Noun

tukui

1. the sparkling violetear, Colibri coruscans
2. hummingbird in general
3. the Mexican vine snake, Oxybelis aeneus

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tukui”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “tukui”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 126
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tu'kui”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “tukui”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN