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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Borrowed from Puinave .[1] Compare Baniwa yalanawinai, Carijona yaranai (“Brazilian”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
yadanawi
- A non-indigenous person, Creole, sometimes in particular a benevolent Spanish-speaking settler in contrast with the malevolent jañudu.
- 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (ConvChur.016), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 144:
Unwa kowontaato yadanawiuwö yeichü.- She defends us there (in the city) from the way of being of the non-natives.
References
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yadanawi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 144
- ^ Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, page 224
- ^ For the latter, see Guerrero-Beltran, David Felipe (2019) “The Grammar of Space in Karijona, a Cariban language from Northwest Amazonia”, pages 35, 37.