adha'komo weyudu

Ye'kwana

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aðaʔkomo wejuːɾ̠u]

Proper noun

adha'komo weyudu

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

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, page 201: “adhacomo weyudu”
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