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kokunda
koh-koo-nda
bury
French: enterrer
Bakei kokunda ebembe.
They went to bury the body.
Ils sont allés enterrer le corps.
To bury — laying the body in the earth. Kokunda is to bury. Death gathers the whole family; to kokunda an ebembe is a slow, sung ritual — the closing of one life and the gathering of those it touched.
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