jhunu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jhunu
Brazilian standard	jhunu
New Tribes	ijunu

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *punu (“flesh, meat, body”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [çunu]

Noun

jhunu

1. muscle, flesh

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “junu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “hyunu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “hyunu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005), Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 218: “junu”