Ye'kwana jüüdü

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• De'kwana jüüdü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From ye'kwana (“Ye'kwana”) +‎ jüü (“mountain”) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟeʔkʷana hʷɨːɾ̠ɨ]

Proper noun

Ye'kwana jüüdü

1. (Caura River dialect) Mount Dekuana in the Parima Mountains, treated in legend as the origin place of the Ye'kwana

References

• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Dekuhana (Dekuana)”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• 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 190