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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From shiichu (“baby”) + ewüttü (possessed form of öwattö (“home, vessel”)), thus ‘vessel of the baby’.
Pronunciation
Noun
shiichu ewüttü
- womb, uterus
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 194: “shichu ewötö”
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 183: “shiichu ewötö”