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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Noun
küdayü (possessed küdayüdü)
- the cricket-vine, Fridericia chica, whose leaves are dried and boiled to make reddish dye for staining gourds and basket strips
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “küdayü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “küda:yu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Carlsson, Erica (2012) Understanding Influences on Harvesting Species of the Genus Heteropsis and Basket Production by Indigenous Ye’kwana of the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela, University of Florida: “kiidayu”