Wiktionary

Koyojinña

Ye'kwana edit

Etymology edit

Related to koijai (“night”), with a suffix -nña (“at the place of”).

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

Koyojinña

  1. (Ye'kwana mythology) in the underground and underwater world, inhabited by dangerous supernatural beings

References edit

  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 189: “coyojiiña”
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1985) “Medatia: A Makiritare Shaman’s Tale” in Guss, David M. (editor), The Language of the Birds: Tales, Texts, and Poems of Interspecies Communication, pages 63, 69
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