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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Perhaps related to koijai (“night”), with a suffix -nña (“at the place of”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
Koyojinña
- (Ye'kwana mythology) in the underground and underwater world, inhabited by dangerous supernatural beings
References
- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 189: “coyojiiña”
- de Civrieux, Marc (1985) “Medatia: A Makiritare Shaman’s Tale” in Guss, David M. (editor), The Language of the Birds: Tales, Texts, and Poems of Interspecies Communication, pages 63, 69