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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From ye'kwana (“Ye'kwana”) + jüü (“mountain”) + -dü (possessed suffix).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ye'kwana jüüdü
- (Caura River dialect) Mount Dekuana in the Parima Mountains, treated in legend as the origin place of the Ye'kwana
References
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Dekuhana (Dekuana)”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- 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 190: “Ye’kwanajödö”