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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Compare Kari'na kijere, Pemon küsere, Waiwai seere, Macushi kîse.
Pronunciation
Noun
kiyede (possessed kiyedü)
- (Caura River dialect) manioc, cassava, yuca, Manihot esculenta
- Synonym: ödeja
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kiyede”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 172
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 288, 393, 400: “küde:de -de: -dü 'manioc' […] küde:de - manioc […] ü'de:dü - my manioc”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “kɨdēde”, 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, page 31: “kideye [sic]”
- 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 254: “cödede”