Miya kukú

Noun n.

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Français: Moustique
English: Mosquito
العربية: بعوضة

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Swadesh list)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Miya kukú (Mosquito). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/226-miya-kuku (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctarmiya,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Miya kukú (Mosquito)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/226-miya-kuku},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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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. aarú n. míya n. háamu n. a-yyár live, to vi. yiddár liver n. taa taaʃá ʃá long, to be vi. kukú louse (head) n. geení moon mosquito mother mouth n. a-yyár n. míya kukú n t-aa aa--dás dás--t n. naaná n. míya N - n name n. mân narrow, to be vi. karrós near to, to be vi. mán neck n. jinjí new, to be vi. yaynáy nice adj. giŋ giŋ--gimán night n. cijí nose npl. t-í-nʒar nostrils npl. t-í-nʒar numerous, to be vi. babó numerous, to make vt. babó O - o odor n. mammaní old, to be vi. …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 335
… d noun. (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 pro …

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

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