imuntajaicho

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV imuntajaicho
Brazilian standard imuntajaicho
New Tribes imuntajaicho

Etymology

From i- (adverbializer) +‎ munta (“to bleed; to menstruate”) +‎ -jai (abilitative adverbializer) +‎ -ato (nominalizer), thus literally ‘one (potentially) able to bleed’.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [imuntahajt͡ʃo]

Noun

imuntajaicho

  1. girl in early puberty, before menarche

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 236: “imuntajaicho”
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