imuntajaicho
Ye'kwana edit
ALIV | imuntajaicho |
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Brazilian standard | imuntajaicho |
New Tribes | imuntajaicho |
Etymology edit
From i- (adverbializer) + munta (“to bleed; to menstruate”) + -jai (abilitative adverbializer) + -ato (nominalizer), thus literally ‘one (potentially) able to bleed’.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
imuntajaicho
References edit
- 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, page 236: “imuntajaicho”