weyu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	weyu
Brazilian standard	weyu
New Tribes	weyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [weju]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Cariban *weju (“sun”).

Alternative forms

• wedu

Noun

weyu (possessed weyudu)

1. rays of the sun, sunbeams
2. summer, the dry season (roughly February to April), the start of the annual cycle and season of clearing and planting gardens, hunting and fishing, and the start of new construction
3. year

Derived terms

• adha'komo weyudu

 

See also

Seasons in Ye'kwana(layout · text)
weyu, wedu (“summer”)	chukwamedawö (“start of winter”)	konojawö (“rainy season”)	dadiweyudu (“short summer”)	yatamedawö (“end of the year”)

Etymology 2

Noun

weyu

1. Alternative form of wiyu (“malevolent water spirit”)

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wedu, wiyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wedu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wedɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 201: “weyu”
• 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 27: “weyu”