muudu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	muudu
Brazilian standard	muudu
New Tribes	muudu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muːɾ̠u]

Noun

muudu

1. pacu (fish)
   1. the tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum
   2. the pirapitinga, Piaractus brachypomus

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “muudu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• 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 36: “mudu”
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 219, 394: “[mụ:ḍu] 'morocoto' […] mu:du - type of fish”