ödemi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ödemi
Brazilian standard	ädeemi
New Tribes	ädeemi
historical ad hoc	ademi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əɾ̠eːmi]

Noun

ödemi

1. long (2–3 days) communal ceremonial chant performed at major events and festivals to purify involved objects of ritual pollution/taboo (amoi)

   Coordinate term: aichudi

2. song, chant (in general)

Derived terms

• audaajö edemi'jüdü
• edemi'chö
• maji edemi'jüdü
• öttö edemi'jüdü
• tanükü edemi'jüdü
• toki edemi'jüdü

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ödemi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “öde:mi eda:mo”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “ademi”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 175:

  ademi: Ademi is the most common term for ‘song’ and is applied to the long, ceremonial performances of the Watunna. When the suffix hidi is added, a verb form [sic] is made meaning ‘to sing’, as in Adahe ademi hidi, ‘To sing conuco’.

• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 65–67: “ademi”