öddaajö
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
- audaajö (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology edit
From addö (“to clear (a garden)”) + -ajö (perfective past nominalizer).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
öddaajö
- (Caura River dialect) conuco, large slash-and-burn garden planted in two concentric circles
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “awdwāhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öddaajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “awdwa:hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “adahe”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 33: “adaha”