Ye'kwana jüüdü

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From ye'kwana (Ye'kwana) +‎ jüü (mountain) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ɟeʔkʷana hʷɨːɾ̠ɨ]

Proper noun[edit]

Ye'kwana jüüdü

  1. (Caura River dialect) Mount Dekuana in the Parima Mountains, treated in legend as the origin place of the Ye'kwana

References[edit]

  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Dekuhana (Dekuana)”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
  • 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 190