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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Noun
dimoshi
- (Caura River dialect) the harpy eagle, Harpia harpyja
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “dimoshi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “dimoshi”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 120
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 388: “demo:shi - eagle”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “demōši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “dinoshi”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN: “dinoshi: Harpia harpyja. The world’s most powerful eagle, the Harpy of the Watunna are viewed as supernatural monsters of even greater proportions. Some versions of the Dinoshi tale view them as having one enormous body and two heads, rather than as two separate birds.”