Ye'kwana edit

Variant orthographies
ALIV audaajö
Brazilian standard audaajä
New Tribes audaajä
historical ad hoc adahe, adaha

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From audö (to clear (a garden)) +‎ -ajö (perfective past nominalizer).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

audaajö

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) conuco, large slash-and-burn garden planted in two concentric circles

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öddaajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “äudwaajä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “awdwa:hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “awdwāhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “adahe”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
  • 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 33:adaha