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Phuna

Noun class IXnounReviewedpage 339

Portuguese spellingPuna

Word formsJiphunaplural · candidate · corpus spelling “jiphuna” ×10

Definitions

  1. 1
    Elbow.

    PT Cotovelo.·FR Coude.

    Seen in the folk-tales

    • Ufukama phuna imoxi; ua ka tangela misa.She knelt on one knee; she recited a prayer for it (to entice it).III · told by Jeremias da Costa, known as Jelemía dia Sabatelu
Source · Assis Júnior (1940s), page 339 (right)\u00b7 modern spelling canonical, source spelling redirected