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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
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| Brazilian standard
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| New Tribes
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Etymology
From aichudi (“traditional private chant performed to purify something of ritual pollution”) + -ma (verbalizer).
Pronunciation
Verb
yaichuuma (Caura River dialect, transitive)
- to blow on
- to blow away
- to bless
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yaichuuma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “yaichuma:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “yaičumā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021