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praukubliis

I. N

1. cooking,health,plant coriander

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    Also known as "wild culantro". Used to season fresh fish soup made with machaca fish. As a medicine, used mashed and plastered on hand for drawing out the heat of a fever. Similarly a person can be beaten with it until blood is drawn to draw out the heat of a fever.

pri

I. V

1. cooking shuck

3. pick clean

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    The imperative form for this verb is 'pit'.

priya nguu

I. N

1. house church

Composicion:

expression

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    Neologism based on borrowing from English (prayer) and Rama name 'nguu' (house).

prukprukna

No hay definicion(es)

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    Reduplication.

prunkikis

I. N

1. animal,insect small black ant
Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:
  • Prunkikis manais isii susungi seem. Parnga barka uruk su tiiskama.
    This ant looks like a manais ant (to us). It is black too but smaller.
    Esta hormiga se parece a la hormiga mania (para nosotros). Es negra tambien pero pequeña.

prup

I. N

1. artef.,dom. diesel/kerosene lamp

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    A kerosene or diesel lamp made out of a small can with a snap in lid, like a powered milk can. You make a hole in the lid and make a wick with a piece of cloth. Diesel was the more common fuel used by Rama in locations such as Monkey Point or Cane Creek, i.e., those who traded with commercial shrimp and fish boats, etc. As distinguished from twitwi, made with a cloth wick in a bottle, and more usually using kerosene, as on Rama Cay: they did not regularly trade with fish boats (shrimp boats), and bought kerosene in Bluefields.
  • Léxica:
    "Prup" was also used by some Kriols in Monkey Point. Also given as "pruk."

pruuki

I. N

1. artef.,palm,plant,tree unidentified palm

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    A small slender tree in the bush. You strip pieces of the bark lengthwise to use to use for any number of things that require a sturdy cord, for example, to tie up a hog or game, or to make a tump line so that you can carry a sack of breadkind on your back by putting the "strap" around your forehead.

pruun

I. N

1. dom.,plant,tree trumpet tree

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    The tree does not have a lot of uses; it is used to make hog sties.
  • Gramatical:
    Is used for both a tree 'pruun kat' (trumpet tree) and an ant 'pruun uut' (trumpet ant), but 'pruun' alone can only mean the tree.

pruun uut

I. N

1. animal,insect trumpet ant

Composicion:

expression
Morfemas
pruun uut
trumpet tree bug

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    Called this way because they climb on the trumpet tree.

ps

No hay definicion(es)

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    Variant of 'pis' (to show) when suffixed with tense, while 'pis' is used in the imperative or when suffixed with subordinator.

psaa

I. N

1. body liver

psaa

No hay definicion(es)

psaarik

I. N

1. animal,bird big toucan
Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:
  • Psaarik sinsak isiik sumaa ikuaakar. Isiik taik astraabing nuknuknga, astraabing saala.
    The billbird is a bird who has a long bill. The side of the bill is one side yellow and one side red.
    El billbird es un pájaro que tiene un pico largo. Un lado del pico es amarillo y el otro rojo.

Pictures/Imagenes:

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    Found in the Adam stories.
    They live in the creeks and rivers and are not hunted.

Psaarik Sik Taara

I. PN

1. land,toponomy Toucan Rock

Composicion:

expression
Morfemas
psaarik sik taara
big toucan bill big

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    Big rock in the waterfall up Corn River.
  • Gramatical:
    In the expression, the long vowel of siik 'bill' is shortened.
  • Léxica:
    Literally 'toucan with a big bill'.

psaauk

I. N

1. animal,body turtle belly

psak

I. N

1. animal,mammal small ground squirrel
Pictures/Imagenes:

psuk

I. N

1. animal worm, caterpillar, maggot

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    Some fish, such as tuba, "pick," (bite) well with different kinds of worms as bait.

    When refers to intestinal parasites, there are a number of different purges that adults take, and children are given (e.g., senna leaf tea) periodically as purges to get rid of worms. Round worms (ascaris) are very common.

psuk aalukwa

I. N

1. animal white hairy worm

Composicion:

expression
Morfemas
psuk aalukwa
worm, caterpillar, maggot with prickles

psuk aing siika

I. N

1. health worm medicine

Composicion:

expression
Morfemas
psuk aing siika
worm, caterpillar, maggot of medicine

psuk alkiinuing

I. N

1. animal hairy worm

Composicion:

expression
Morfemas
psuk alkiin -uing
worm, caterpillar, maggot itch HAB

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    Literally 'itching worm'.

psuk pluuma parnga

I. N

1. animal white and black hairy worm

Composicion:

expression
Morfemas
psuk pluuma parnga
worm, caterpillar, maggot white black

psut

I. N

2. space inside

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    Rarely used as a lone noun. See also 'psutki', where 'psut' is a relational noun.

psutki

I. PSP

1. space inside

Composicion:

Compounds
Morfemas
psut ki
inside in

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    Complex postposition from a locative noun 'psut' (inside) and general locative postposition 'ki' (in/on).

psutki ka

I. ADV

1. space from inside

Composicion:

expression
Morfemas
psutki ka
inside from

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    The word 'psutki' is itself a compound of 'psut+ki' (inside+in).

psutpsutki

I. PSP

1. measuring,space deep inside

Composicion:

Compounds

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    Reduplication to note emphasis. See 'psutki'

puh-

I. C+

1. turn over

puh-ting

I. V

1. turn over

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    Intransitive. The corresponding transitive verb is 'puh-uung'.

puh-uung

I. V

2. turn over

Notas:

  • Gramatical:
    Transitive. The corresponding intransitive verb is 'puh-ting'.

puk

I. N

1. animal,mammal agouti

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    Smaller than a paca (givenot in Kriol). It is reddish brown color and is hunted for food.
  • Léxica:
    Kyaki is Miskitu and kriol.

puk saala

I. N

1. animal,food,hunting,mammal agouti

Notas:

  • Etnográfica:
    A pretty red-brown rodent, smaller than a givenot (paca) which is hunted for its meat. Usually roasted. Sometimes then are stewed. Some also fry it. Kyakis and pacas dig dens with tunnels in the bush, often among the big tree roots. Some dogs are specialists for hunting givenot and kyaki (agouti). Despite their rabbit size, they can do a lot of damage if they have the chance to bite up the hunting dogs.
  • Léxica:
    They are all the same color. The babies are striped and speckled like fawns. Those who say puk saala probably use puk alone for givenot (kulii).
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