kuma oko

Barasana

Etymology

kuma (summer) + oko (rain)

Noun

kuma oko

  1. (literally) summer rain
  2. (by extension) any heavy rain

References

  • 1982, Hugh-Jones, Barasana Cosmology, in Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics
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