ödemi edajö

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

ödemi eyajö (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From ödemi (“song, chant”) +‎ ödajö (“possessor, master”) +‎ -∅ (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘possessor of song’.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [əɾ̠eːmi eɾ̠aːhə]

Noun

ödemi edajö (plural ödemi edamo)

(Cunucunuma River dialect) a master storyteller, singer, and ritual specialist in the Ye'kwana tradition, one who has been instructed in all traditional chants by a previous ödemi edajö

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, pages 183–186
Andrade, Karenina Vieira (2013) “Alteridades (in)corporadas: notas sobre a chefia ye’kuana” in Anuário Antropológico, volume 38, number 1, page 74

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