akami

Japanese

Romanization

akami

Rōmaji transcription of あかみ

Kari'na

Etymology

Compare Trió akami, Akawaio akami, Pemon yakami, Macushi akami, as well as Wayampi yakami, Sranan Tongo kamikami.

Pronunciation

(Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA^(key): [akaːmi]

(East Suriname) IPA^(key): [aɡaːmi]

Noun

akami (possessed akamiry)

the agami or grey-winged trumpeter, Psophia crepitans

Descendants

→ French: agami
- → English: agami
- → Portuguese: agami
- → Serbo-Croatian: agámi
- → Spanish: agamí

References

Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 216
Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “akami”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 69; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 72

Scots

Noun

akami

Shetland form of akamy

References

“akami” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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