müdeshi

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Proto-Cariban *mure (“child”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

müdeshi

  1. (Caura River dialect) youth, bachelor, unmarried but eligible young person

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References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “müdesi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mude:shi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “mudēši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • The template Template:R:mch:Fertility does not use the parameter(s): 
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