küdayü

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɨɾ̠aːjɨ]

Noun

küdayü (possessed küdayüdü)

1. the cricket-vine, Fridericia chica, whose leaves are dried and boiled to make reddish dye for staining gourds and basket strips

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “küdayü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “küda:yu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Carlsson, Erica (2012) Understanding Influences on Harvesting Species of the Genus Heteropsis and Basket Production by Indigenous Ye’kwana of the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela‎^[2], University of Florida: “kiidayu”