Kukú

Verb vi.

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Français: Être profond, long, grand (taille)
English: Deep/long/tall, to be
العربية: يكون عميقاً، طويلاً، كبيراً (قامة)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Kukú (Deep/long/tall, to be). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/189-kuku (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarkuku,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Kukú (Deep/long/tall, to be)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/189-kuku},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… lorsque le morphème V-initial est ajouté. Final -u Tadak avec suffixe Sens en Fr étymologie hunú hunán partir de là KCH : hun húuru húuran y entrer KS : huru/a kukú kukán long (adjectif) KCH : kuu múnsu munsuwan être nourri W : mӑnsӑw yóṛu yoṛuwan être usé (vêtements) W : ǝṛǝw yíṣku yiṣkuwan être séché(puit) W : ǝsḳǝw yúhu yuhuwan naître W : ihu Les rares verbes qui se terminent par /o/ ont un comportement différent.

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 31
41 Phonological Structure underlying final /-w/ that reappears when the V-initial morpheme is added. (65) final -u Tadak with suffix hunú húuru kukú múnsu yóṛu yíṣku yúhu hunán húuran kukán munsuwan yoṛuwan yiṣkuwan yuhuwan gloss leave from there enter there long (adjective) be nourished be used (clothes) be dried up be born etymology KCH: hun KS: huru/a KCH: kuu W: mӑnsӑw W: ǝṛǝw W: ǝsḳǝw W: ihu In the case of a-final verbs, the two vowels are coalesced: (66) final -a Tadak …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 58
117 Morphology míya kukú mosquito (Lit: long beak) mouth be.long All these expressions form their plural by adding a plural morpheme only to the last element of the term, e.g., naná ceen-án for ‘maternal aunts’. A small number of idioms use the genitive /n/ as link between the two terms. The stress pattern of these expressions is the same as in regular genitival constructions. All terms except ‘ox’ are Songhay cognates. They form the plural by adding a plural morpheme only to …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 135
… n. (26) Man na umuk [aɣo enda] ar-te-guna way [# Ø-bara iʒinan], where DET manner REL COM 1P-FUT-see woman PERF-be.in sky sa [ayn hugu a-f-kedi tazaɣant n miya kuku-an]? COMPZR 3S.GEN house 3S-IMPF-be.up mast GEN end be.long-ADJZ How are we going to see the woman being in the sky, whose house is up at the end of a long mast? The constituent that contains the possessive pronoun which is correlative with the head noun may be fronted. If this happens, then a correlative pronomin …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 8

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