Sedume
Ye'kwana
editALIV | Sedume |
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Brazilian standard | Seduume |
New Tribes | Seduume |
Alternative forms
editEtymology
editThe related element found in Sedujiyanadi is said by Guss to mean ‘the Thinker’,[1] and Gongora glosses another related term sedujedüködömma as ‘your intelligence’.[2] Perhaps compare sejje (“intelligence”), possessed form sejjedü.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editSedume
- Synonym of Wanasedume
- Synonym of Wanasedu
- One of a small number of temporary names given to a baby boy at birth until a true name can be determined
References
edit- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris[2], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 45, 49, 62–63, 109, 118, 227–228, 326–327, 330: “Seduume […] Sedööme”
- ^ 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, page 54
- ^ Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris[1], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 238