jöönö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jöönö
Brazilian standard	fäänä
New Tribes	jäänä
historical ad hoc	huenna

Alternative forms

• jö'nö (Brazil)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷəːnə]

Noun

jöönö

1. the great tinamou, Tinamus major
2. the white-throated tinamou, Tinamus guttatus

References

• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “jöönö”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[1] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 120
• Ye’kwana nonoodö: yawaadeejudinnha wenhä = Território Ye’kwana: a vida em Auaris‎^[2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Portuguese), São Paulo: ISA – Instituto Socioambiental, 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 91: “fä'nä”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “huenna”, 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^[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 188: “jäänä”