weijüdü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV weijüdü
Brazilian standard weijhödö
New Tribes weijödö

Etymology

From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ ei (“to be”) +‎ -'jüdü (past action nominalizer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [wejçɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

weijüdü

  1. former lifetime, time of (someone)

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 193: “weijödö”
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