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The Caribs of Dominica

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154 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BUIX. 119<br />

liment(s)i'<br />

numuiyd',<br />

(nubuiyA',<br />

(nulubuiy^') (?)<br />

hyi'haru (F)<br />

na'tari<br />

nha'phtaha'<br />

no'kobu<br />

na'ni§i (F)<br />

ba'ku<br />

niti'buri<br />

ni'giri<br />

niu'ma<br />

warikae<br />

turakae<br />

laka'bo (luka'bo)<br />

pu'guti<br />

ligi'bu<br />

nu'ruku<br />

br^'ke (bu6'ke)<br />

alu'kui<br />

pe'te-roku'<br />

way'ku (C)<br />

mu6'na (mui'na) (C)<br />

akae<br />

ku'muri (ku'mori)<br />

tu'ba<br />

ba't6 kuil6'<br />

paga'ra<br />

kataori<br />

te'le<br />

egu'barat^'<br />

ibi'taru<br />

u'kuni (M)<br />

kuria'la (F)<br />

matutu'<br />

matapi'<br />

m^'ruwa<br />

mam'ba<br />

iiu'ni<br />

na'iti<br />

ka'iti<br />

bam-bam<br />

ha'liye<br />

baku'ku<br />

bari'ru<br />

kala'buli (C)<br />

kwai, (kwaik)<br />

kawa'i (F)<br />

ki'ere (M)<br />

kapla'o (C)<br />

kum6<br />

md'bi<br />

pi'kd<br />

= his mother-in-law.<br />

= my "combosse" (relationship <strong>of</strong> two people who<br />

have had connection with the same man or woman)<br />

= woman.<br />

= sweetheart.<br />

(?).<br />

= my body.<br />

= my heart.<br />

=thy eyea.<br />

= my hair.<br />

= my nose.<br />

= my mouth.<br />

= our ears.<br />

= her belly.<br />

= his hand.<br />

=thy foot.<br />

= his face.<br />

= my genitalia (female).<br />

= thy glans penis.<br />

= genitalia (male).<br />

= thy anus.<br />

=:loin cloth.<br />

= permaneut shelter, the "koubouya" <strong>of</strong> (Cayenne).<br />

= pot.<br />

= calabash for carrying water (patois: bouri).<br />

= half calabash for cooking.<br />

= half calabash for drinking, etc. ("coui").<br />

= Carib toilet basket.<br />

= Carib shoulder carry-all.<br />

= Carib kitchen basket.<br />

= knife, cutlass.<br />

= iishing line.<br />

= dugout canoe.<br />

= dugout canoe.<br />

= Carib table.<br />

= cassava squeezer; "couleuvre."<br />

= kind <strong>of</strong> clay or s<strong>of</strong>t rock: "tuff."<br />

= honey.<br />

= victuals.<br />

= eating.<br />

= "canqui": grated manioc, sweetened and boiled.<br />

= cassava bread.<br />

= arrowroot.<br />

= "fig" banana.<br />

= banana.<br />

= kind <strong>of</strong> liana used in thatching.<br />

= "tannia", variety (Colocasia esculenta).<br />

= manioc, variety {Manihot utilissima).<br />

= manioc, variety {Manihot sp.).<br />

= var. yam {Dioscorea sp.).<br />

= var. <strong>of</strong> "tannia" or "chou caraibe."<br />

=red variety sweet potato (batata sp.).<br />

= yam, variety (Dioscorea sp.).

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