müdeshi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	müdeshi
Brazilian standard	mödeeshi
New Tribes	mödeeshi

Alternative forms

• müdesi (Caura River dialect)
• mudeshi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Cariban *mure (“child”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɨɾ̠eːʃi]

Noun

müdeshi

1. (Caura River dialect) youth, bachelor, unmarried but eligible young person

Derived terms

• müde'kö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “müdesi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mude:shi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “mudēši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• 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, pages 242–243: “mudeshi”