fakai

French

Verb

fakai

  1. first-person singular past historic of faker

Krio

Etymology

From Mende (Sierra Leone) fakai (“farm camp”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fà.káj/

Noun

fàkái

  1. small village, hamlet

References

  1. ^ Fyle, Clifford N.; Jones, Eldred D. (1980), A Krio-English dictionary, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 96

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognate with Nüpode Huitoto pakai.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɸakai̯]
  • Hyphenation: fa‧kai

Postposition

fakai

  1. when, during the time of

Derived terms

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 82
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 505
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