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briaut pronunciación

I. N

1. food,plant coffee
Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:
  • Briaut nsut tawan ki karka paayai, nsut kuaakit tahma.
    We buy coffee from town, we don't have it.

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    A term used in Cane Creek. When real coffee is not available, people sometimes make burned corn, rice, or sometimes even burned flour coffee. You put it in an iron pot and cook it until it is dark brown and sticks to the pot, then add water, heat it, and drink it like coffee. The other option is to make bush tea from any of a number of different leaves such as lime, orange, or cowfoot.
  • Léxica:
    Relatively new term in the seventies (NR).The new generation says 'kaapi', borrowed from English (coffee).

kaapi

I. N

1. food coffee

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    See notes on 'briaut' for different kinds of coffee.
  • Gramatical:
    Borrowing from English 'coffee'. Several variations : the original sound 'f' can be maintained and the long vowel 'aa' can be reduced. So we get the variants 'kapi', 'kaafi' and 'kafi'. Old Rama people say 'briaut' for coffee.