ödemi eyajö

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From ödemi (“song, chant”) +‎ öyajö (“possessor, master”) +‎ -∅ (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘possessor of song’.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [əɾ̠eːmi ejaːhə]

Noun[edit]

ödemi eyajö (plural ödemi eyamo)

  1. (Caura River dialect) a master storyteller, singer, and ritual specialist in the Ye'kwana tradition, one who has been instructed in all traditional chants by a previous ödemi eyajö

References[edit]

  • 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, pages 183–186
  • Andrade, Karenina Vieira (2013) “Alteridades (in)corporadas: notas sobre a chefia ye’kuana” in Anuário Antropológico, volume 38, number 1, page 74
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