minñaatö yadadü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From minñaatö (“Heteropsis vine”) +‎ yada (“finger, frame”) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix), thus ‘Heteropsis vine’s finger, Heteropsis vine’s frame’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [minɲaːtə ɟaɾ̠aːɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

minñaatö yadadü

1. a Heteropsis (Araceae) spp. vine of greater sturdiness, used to make up the frame of the outside strips of a basket

References

• Carlsson, Erica (2012) Understanding Influences on Harvesting Species of the Genus Heteropsis and Basket Production by Indigenous Ye’kwana of the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela‎^[1], University of Florida, page 22: “minñatö yadadü”