Sedume

Ye'kwana edit

Variant orthographies
ALIV	Sedume
Brazilian standard	Seduume
New Tribes	Seduume

Alternative forms edit

Sedüme

Etymology edit

The related element found in Sedujiyanadi is said by Guss to mean ‘the Thinker’,^[1] and Gongora glosses another related term sedujedüködömma as ‘your intelligence’.^[2] Perhaps compare sejje (“intelligence”), possessed form sejjedü.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [seɾ̠uːme]

Proper noun edit

Sedume

Synonym of Wanasedume
Synonym of Wanasedu
One of a small number of temporary names given to a baby boy at birth until a true name can be determined

References edit

Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[2], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 45, 49, 62–63, 109, 118, 227–228, 326–327, 330: “Seduume, Sedööme”

^ 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 54
^ Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[1], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 238

[1] 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 54

[2] Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[1], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 238

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