jayena

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jayena
Brazilian standard	fayeena
New Tribes	jayeena

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ballena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷajeːna]

Noun

jayena

1. whale

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jayena”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon