kiyede

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kiyede
Brazilian standard	kiyeede
New Tribes	quiyeede

Alternative forms

• küdede (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Compare Kari'na kijere, Pemon küsere, Waiwai seere, Macushi kîse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kijeːɾ̠e]

Noun

kiyede (possessed kiyedü)

1. (Caura River dialect) manioc, cassava, yuca, Manihot esculenta

   Synonym: ödeja

Derived terms

• kiyede weja'kadü

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kiyede”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 172
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “küde:de”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 288
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kɨdēde”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31: “kideye [sic]”
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 254: “cödede”