imuntajaicho

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From i- (adverbializer) +‎ munu (blood) +‎ -ta (verbalizer) +‎ -jai (abilitative adverbializer) +‎ -ato (nominalizer), thus literally ‘one (potentially) able to bleed’.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

imuntajaicho

  1. girl in early puberty, before menarche

References[edit]

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    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 236