ada'komo weyudu

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From ada'komo (mortals, ephemeral creatures) + weyu (rays of the sun) + -dü (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘sunrays of the ephemeral creatures’.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aɾ̠aʔkomo wejuːɾ̠u]

Proper noun

ada'komo weyudu

  1. the visible Sun, as opposed to its never-setting invisible double or spirit (ökato)

References

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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, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 201
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