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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Noun
ja'se (obligatorily possessed; possessed ja'se)
- (in relation to a man) sister’s daughter, sororal niece
- (in relation to a woman) brother’s daughter, fraternal niece
- female parallel cousin’s daughter
- father’s brother’s daughter’s daughter
- mother’s sister’s daughter’s daughter
- male cross-cousin’s daughter
- father’s sister’s son’s daughter
- mother’s brother’s son’s daughter
- great-granddaughter
- sibling’s great-granddaughter, great-grandniece
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ja'se”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 113
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 292
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “hāse”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 71, 75: “ja'se”