ödemi eyajö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ödemi eyajö
Brazilian standard	ädeemi eyaajä
New Tribes	ädeemi eyaajä

Alternative forms

• ödemi edhajö, ödemi edajö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From ödemi (“song, chant”) +‎ öyajö (“possessor, master”) +‎ -∅ (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘possessor of song’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əɾ̠eːmi ejaːhə]

Noun

ödemi eyajö (plural ödemi eyamo)

1. (Caura River dialect) a master storyteller, singer, and ritual specialist in the Ye'kwana tradition, one who has been instructed in all traditional chants by a previous ödemi eyajö

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 183–186: “edemi edamo”
• Andrade, Karenina Vieira (2013) “Alteridades (in)corporadas: notas sobre a chefia ye’kuana” in Anuário Antropológico, volume 38, number 1, page 74