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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From y- (third-person possessed prefix) + ujudu (“headwaters”) + -nña (“at the place of”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
Yujudunña
- in the homeland of the Ye'kwana, the region stretching from the right bank of the upper Orinoco River to the lower reaches of the Ventuari and Caura Rivers
References
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Ihuruña”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 8: “Ihuruña”