müde'kö

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From müdeshi (youth) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

müde'kö

  1. (Caura River dialect) child, from the time when it learns to walk until puberty

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “müde'kö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mudekö:kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “mudekə̄kə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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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[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 230–232