adha'komo

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV adha'komo
Brazilian standard adha'komo
New Tribes adha'como

Etymology

From adhe / a'ye (“while brief, short, ephemeral”) +‎ -ato (nominalizer) +‎ -komo (plural suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aðaʔkomo]

Noun

adha'komo

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect, in the plural) mortals, ephemeral creatures

Derived terms

References

  • 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, pages 201, 216, 246: “adhacomo […] adhecomo”
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