öttö edemi'jüdü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From öttö (“village roundhouse”) +‎ ödemi (“song, chant”) +‎ -'jüdü (past possessed suffix), thus ‘what was sung of the roundhouse’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əttə eɾ̠eːmiʔçɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

öttö edemi'jüdü

1. the several-day-long chant sung during the festival to inaugurate a new village roundhouse and eliminate the ritual pollution (amoi) present in its components
2. the festival itself

References

• 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 65–66, 226: “atta ademi hidi”
• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Ättä Edemi Jödö: the cosmosonics ritual of inauguration of the Ye’kwana round house” in Hawò, volume 1, page 1–31
• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Ättä edemi jödö: singing the houses” in The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People, page 96–109