shiichu wamodetatojo
Ye'kwana
editALIV | shiichu wamodetatojo |
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Brazilian standard | shiichu wamoodetaatofo |
New Tribes | shiichu wamoodetaatojo |
Etymology
editFrom shiichu (“baby”) + w- (intransitive prefix) + aamödeta (“to transform”) + -tojo (instrumental nominalizer), thus ‘transformer of the baby’.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editReferences
edit- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 194: “shichu wamodetatojo”