tuna jedü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV tuna jedü
Brazilian standard tuna fedö
New Tribes tuna jedö

Etymology

From tuna (“water”) +‎ jedü (“face”), literally “face of the water”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tuna hʷeɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

tuna jedü

  1. riverbank, shore

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tuna jedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
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