Mekéns

Family
Tupian
Region
South America
ISO 639-3
skf
Location
-13.05°, -62.09°
Notes
Features
Flora Fauna Vocabulary
Data Sources
Galucio, Ana Vilacy; Meira, Sérgio; Birchall, Joshua; Moore, Denny; Gabas Júnior, Nilson; Drude, Sebastian; Storto, Luciana; Picanḉo, Gessiane; Rodrigues, Carmen Reis. 2015. Genealogical relations and lexical distances within the Tupí linguistic family: a lexicostatistical and phylogenetic approach. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 10.2:229-274.


Flora Fauna Vocabulary (1)
English Spanish Portuguese Semantic Field Part of Speech Linnean Name Orthographic Form Phonemicized Form Gloss as in Source Etymology Code Proto-Form Proto-Language Loan Source Etymology Notes Wanderwort Status Etyma Set Range of Term Word Structure Word Structure Notes Classifier Classifier Notes Hypernym Source Association with Social Categories Ritual/Mythologically Significant Ritual Notes Food Source Food Notes Medicinal Medicinal Notes How Collected Who Collects How Prepared Psychotropic Psychotropic Notes Traded Trade Notes Distribution Habitat Dangerous Ethnobiology Notes Species Notes General Notes
peach palm, pejibaye palm chontaduro (Col, Ecuador); pipire (Col); pijuayo (Peru), pijiguao (Ven); tembe (Bol) pupunha flora-fauna Bactris gasipaes taapiɾo taapiɾo peach palm (pupunha) Loan, e.g. Harakmbut? cf. %pipiri? GALUCIO, MEIRA, BIRCHALL, MOORE, GABAS JÚNIOR, DRUDE, STORTO, PICANÇO, RODRIGUES 2015: 269