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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
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imuntajaicho
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| Brazilian standard
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imuntajaicho
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| New Tribes
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imuntajaicho
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Etymology
From i- (adverbializer) + munta (“to bleed; to menstruate”) + -jai (abilitative adverbializer) + -ato (nominalizer), thus literally ‘one (potentially) able to bleed’.
Pronunciation
Noun
imuntajaicho
- girl in early puberty, before menarche
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 236: “imuntajaicho”