kw

No hay definicion(es)

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Gramatical:
Variant of 'kuu' (take) in rapid speech and with present tense : 'kw-i'

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kw

I. grapheme

1. kw

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Gramatical:
Complex grapheme for single sound of labialized k.

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kwaakak

I. N

1. animal,health,insect butterfly

Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:

Kwaakak kukat aakwaals yaungai, stanangkama.
The butterfly wings look pretty to look at

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Etnográfica:
Butterflies are bad omens. Seen as causing illness with fever. Old people say that the migrating butterflies go to Turtle Bogue in Costa Rica where they suck turtle blood.
There is a month when migrating butterflies go through Bluefields lagoon by the millions. Other time when the swampwood trees are covered with butterflies.
Léxica:
Generic for butterflies. No other known names for butterflies.

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kwaakar

I. V

1. have

Notas:

Gramatical:
'kwaakar' (have) has variant forms :
'kwaakur' is used when suffixed with past tense '-u' as in 'kwaakuru'.
'kuaakar' is a variant form in slow speech.
'kwaakit' is the form when suffixed with the subordinator '-ka' (when). Same variants as for 'aakar/aakit'.

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kwaaka uup

I. N

1. health,plant,whit unidentified

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Etnográfica:
A large brown seed used as a purge and as one ingredient of bush medicine for a snake that lives high up. For a purge, you peel off the skin, scrape the meat into little pieces, roll them up and swallow them like pills.

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kwaakit

I. V

1. have

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Gramatical:
Variant form of 'kwaakar' when suffixed with subordinator like '-ka' (when) or '-su' (upon).

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kwaakur

No hay definicion(es)

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Gramatical:
Variant form of 'kwaakar' when with past tense suffix '-u' as in 'kwaakuru' (have past).

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kwaal

I. N

1. animal,frog spring toad

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kwaala

I. ADJ

1. measuring bad

2. break rotten

3. measuring,percep. ugly

4. mean

5. measuring dangerous

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kwaalka

I. ADJ

1. measuring bad

2. emot ashamed

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Gramatical:
See 'kwaalka aating' for meaning of ashamed.

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kwaalka aating

I. V

2. emot be ashamed

Composicion:

expression

Morfemas
kwaalka	aating
ashamed	do

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kwaalku

No hay definicion(es)

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Gramatical:
For sound.

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kwaals

I. ADJ

1. measuring bad

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kwaalup

I. N

1. artef.,dory paddle

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Etnográfica:
Paddles are fashioned by men out of pieces of wood, lumber using machetes. "Samwood" a common wood to use. The top is a T-bar shape to grasp, then a longisih slender neck becoming an elongated flatter bottom. It's best to have your own paddle made for your own preferences of size, weight, etc.
Gramatical:
Class marker '-up' for roundish objects.

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kwaalup pung

I. N

1. artef.,body,dory middle of the paddle

Composicion:

expression

Morfemas
kwaalup	pung
paddle	waist

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Etnográfica:
The part that you hold.

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kwahala

No hay definicion(es)

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kwalka

No hay definicion(es)

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kwarka

I. PSP

1. out from

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kwataaz

I. N

1. animal,bird clay-colored thrush

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Etnográfica:
The national bird of Costa Rica; not flashy, but sings a beautiful sweet song.
Léxica:
Also heard as waaterz.

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kwatang

I. N

1. animal,mammal big bat

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Etnográfica:
Any of a number of large black bats that fly in the night. No particular beliefs associated with them.
Léxica:
Also kuaatang

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kwerku

I. N

1. animal,food,mammal pig/hog

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Etnográfica:
Free-roaming hogs in small numbers have been raised for a long time as a source of income. By 2008, many more hogs, most still free-roaming, which has created more problems of hygiene and of digging up crops (though many have taken up the local custom of knotting a wire through the snout to dissuade the latter.) Pork has been eatenby many for a long time. The good time to castrate a hog is with the new moon because the skin is soft. If you do it at the full moon the skin is tough.
Gramatical:
Borrowing from Spanish (puerco).