kunayte gets both halves wrong
composedTwo separate guesses stacked on one word: the k for the hard c, and something done to the ending.
heard askunayte
spelledcuneate
saidKYOO-nee-ayt
cuneate, with a c at the front and -eate at the back.
Two independent guesses land in the same word. The k is a fair reading of the hard opening consonant. The -ayte is a fair reading of the final syllable. What falls out between them is the whole ee sound in the middle, which the spelling keeps and this rendering does not.
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