kidishu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kidishu
Brazilian standard	kidiishu
New Tribes	quidiishu

Alternative forms

• kidi'shu (Cunucunuma River dialect and Brazil)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kiɾ̠iːʃu]

Noun

kidishu

1. (Caura River dialect and Cunucunuma River dialect) the Brazilian porcupine, Coendou prehensilis

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “kidi'shu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “kidishu”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 221, 223, 392: “[kidi'šu] ~ [qidi'šu] 'spiny animal' […] kidi'shu ~ kidi:shu 'hedgehog, porcupine' […] kidi'shu - porcupine”