müdeshi

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV müdeshi
Brazilian standard mödeeshi
New Tribes mödeeshi

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Cariban *mure (child).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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müdeshi

  1. (Caura River dialect) youth, bachelor, unmarried but eligible young person

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “müdesi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mude:shi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “mudēši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 242–243:mudeshi