Kuru disease
A rare, fatal prion disease of the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, causing…A rare, fatal prion disease of the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, causing progressive neurological decline and historically transmitted through mortuary endocannibalism.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A rare, fatal prion disease of the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, causing progressive neurological decline and historically transmitted through mortuary endocannibalism.
Origin
From Fore kúru (literally “trembling, shivering”). Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *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”).
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