modoi
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *mojoti (“spider”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
modoi
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) a kind of non-biting spider
References edit
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “modoi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “modoy”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021