widiki

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	widiki
Brazilian standard	widiiki
New Tribes	widiiqui
historical ad hoc	wiriki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wiɾ̠iːki]

Noun

widiki (possessed widikiyü)

1. small quartz crystal which is attributed shamanic power and kept in a shaman’s maraca after his initiation

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “widiki”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 402: “[widi:ki] ~ [widi:qi] 'shaman's crystal stone' […] widi:ki - crystal, diamond (kept by shaman)”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “wiriki”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 194
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 230, 243
• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[2], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 48 et passim; possessed form, page 109: “widiiki […] Shiiwidiikiyö”