kuru

Significat (Anglès)

A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.

Conceptes

kuru

Sinònims

canyon

draw

gorge

gulch

Traduccions

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الكورو

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkʉː.ɹʉː/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb Yagaria: gúli gúli hu-

In summary

From Fore kúru (literally “trembling, shivering”). Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *kút(V) (“dangling, shaking”) if cognate with the reduplicated element of Yagaria gúli gúli hu- (“be loose, rattle”).