aji'choto weja'kadü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	aji'choto weja'kadü
Brazilian standard	aji'choto weja'kadö
New Tribes	aji'choto weja'cadö

Etymology

From aji'choto (“girl in seclusion after menarche”) +‎ w- (intransitive marker) +‎ eja'ka (“to come out”) +‎ -dü (action nominalizer), thus literally ‘the coming out of the girl in seclusion’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ahiʔt͡ʃoto wehaʔkaɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

aji'choto weja'kadü

1. coming-of-age ritual for girls performed after menarche, intended to protect them from Odo'sha in a dangerous time and introduce them to adulthood

References

• 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, pages 236–241: “ajiechoto ijacadö”
• 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, page 154: “aji'choto weja'kadö”