Mekéns
- Family
- Tupian
- Region
- South America
- ISO 639-3
- skf
- Location
- -13.05°, -62.09°
- Notes
- Features
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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 |
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| 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 |