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-naku
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naku nāku
Quechua
Suffix
qu suffix
Indicates a reciprocal action.
qu maqay to beat → qu maqanakuy maqanakuy to fight one another
qu rikuy to see → qu rikunakuy rikunakuy to see each other
Descendants
es pasanaku
Tariana
Pronunciation
tae /ˈnaku/
Verb
tae verb
to hold in one's lap or one's shoulder
tae di-dákiɾu-nuku wakúpa wiká-pidana di-sueta di-naku di-a diha diwasádu -ne. The brother-in-law put his granddaughter on his shoulder.
tae euphemism to swive, to have sex
tae -eɾu -thi
tae hĩtu-ma-peni di-eme-ka hĩtu-ma-pe-nuku di-naku-ka di-emhani. When (the curupira) smells a woman menstruating for the first time, the curupira has sex with her and then leaves.
References
Aikhenvald Alexandra Y. A grammar of Tariana, from northwest Amazonia 2003 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82664-8 Cambridge grammatical descriptions Cambridge New York
Aikhenvald Alexandra Y. 2001 Dicionário Tariana-Português e Português-Tariana https://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/pdfs/tariana/language/tariana-dictionary-2002.pdf Boletim do MPEG: Série Antropologia Boletim de Antropologia do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 17 1 1–389 https://web.archive.org/web/20260825072807/https://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/pdfs/tariana/language/tariana-dictionary-2002.pdf 25 August 2026
tae Sex