yaichuuma

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	yaichuuma
Brazilian standard	yaichuuma
New Tribes	yaichuuma

Alternative forms

• yaichuma (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From aichudi (“traditional private chant performed to purify something of ritual pollution”) +‎ -ma (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟajt͡ʃuːma]

Verb

yaichuuma (Caura River dialect, transitive)

1. to blow on
2. to blow away
3. to bless

Derived terms

• susu yaichuumadü

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yaichuuma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “yaichuma:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “yaičumā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021