audaajö

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Etymology

From audö (to clear (a garden)) + -ajö (perfective past nominalizer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [awɾ̠ʷaːhə]

Noun

audaajö

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) conuco, large slash-and-burn garden planted in two concentric circles

Derived terms

References

  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “awdwāhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öddaajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “awdwa:hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “adahe”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
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    Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 33
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