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Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *ada, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *ada, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada. For the negation sense, compare Javanese ora, Tagalog wala.
Pronunciation
Adverb
adai
- not (negates meaning of verb)
Adai ngirup aku- I do not drink
- not (To no degree)
Adai mar baju nya- The shirt is not expensive
Indonesian
Noun
adai
- (dated) embroidered lid (adai-badai)
Laz
Etymology
Compare Turkish aday.
Noun
adai
- candidate, nominee
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
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| Brazilian standard
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| New Tribes
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Pronunciation
Noun
adai (possessed adaichü)
- origin
- the primeval prototype, progenitor, and culture hero of a given species of animal or kind of object; animal ‘Master’
- Synonym: öyajö
Usage notes
In non-Ye’kwana writings on Ye’kwana anthropology and mythology, this word is often cited as sadashe or arache, loose renderings of the possessed form of the word, properly adaichü.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “adai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- 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, pages 31, 52, 54, 101–102, 108, 133–134: “arache”
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “sadashe”, 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, pages 189–190, 235: “adaichö”
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 69: “adaichö”