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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Noun
wadeku (possessed wadekui)
- cotton, Gossypium barbadense
- cotton as a substance, cotton fiber
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wadeku”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wade:ku:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wadēkū”, 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: “wadeku”
- Briceño, Luis García (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths, London: London School of Economics and Political Science, page 81: “wadecu”