kümütüdi

Ye'kwana

FWOTD – 15 June 2022

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kümütüdi
Brazilian standard	kömöötödi
New Tribes	cömöötödi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɨmɨːtɨɾ̠i]

Noun

kümütüdi

1. termite nest of a particular kind of white termite, in which the placenta of a newborn child is traditionally buried

References

• 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 225: “cömötödi”
• Pansanato, José Guilherme Cury (2019) Comunidade das imagens: Notas sobre a política do cinema Ye’kwana, page 106