kushi

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Esperanto

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Verb

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kushi (present kushas, past kushis, future kushos, conditional kushus, volitive kushu)

  1. H-system spelling of kuŝi

Japanese

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Romanization

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kushi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of くし

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV kushi
Brazilian standard kushi
New Tribes cushi

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish cochino.

Alternative forms

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  • kuushi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Noun

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kushi

  1. (Caura River dialect) pig

Etymology 2

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Noun

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kushi (possessed kushiyü)

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) Alternative form of kusshi (a kind of lightly fermented drink made from cassava)

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kushi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ku:shi:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kūši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021