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See also: túuna
Waiwai
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *tuna.
Noun
[edit]tuuna
- water
- 1998, Handbook of Amazonian Languages, volume 4, edited by Desmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum:
- tuuna kwaw nas oponon
- my clothes are in the water
- tuuna ka kmoko
- I came to get water
- tuuna kwaw nas oponon
- 1998, Handbook of Amazonian Languages, volume 4, edited by Desmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum:
Derived terms
[edit]- tuuna ymo (“ocean”, literally “big water”)