Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV weijüdü
Brazilian standard weijhödö
New Tribes weijödö

Etymology

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From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ ei (to be) +‎ -'jüdü (past action nominalizer).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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weijüdü

  1. former lifetime, time of (someone)

References

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  • 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 193:weijödö