wedesede

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *werewere; compare Apalaí erere, Kari'na werewere, Trió werewere, Akawaio weruwe, Macushi ereuwe, Pemon weruwe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [weɾ̠eːseɾ̠e]

Noun

wedesede

1. fly (insect)

References

• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wedēsede”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021