küdayü

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV küdayü
Brazilian standard ködaayö
New Tribes cödaayö

Pronunciation

Noun

küdayü (possessed küdayüdü)

  1. 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