ada'komo weyudu

Ye'kwana edit

Variant orthographies
ALIV	ada'komo weyudu
Brazilian standard	ada'komo weyuudu
New Tribes	ada'como weyuudu

Etymology edit

From ada'komo (“mortals, ephemeral creatures”) +‎ weyu (“rays of the sun”) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘sunrays of the ephemeral creatures’.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [aɾ̠aʔkomo wejuːɾ̠u]

Proper noun edit

ada'komo weyudu

the visible Sun, as opposed to its never-setting invisible double or spirit (ökato)

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 201: “adhacomo weyudu”