modoi
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Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | modoi |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | modoi |
| New Tribes | modoi |
Alternative forms
[edit]- *moyoi (Caura River dialect)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *mojoti (“spider”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]modoi
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) the Brazilian wandering spider, Phoneutria sp.
References
[edit]- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “modhoi”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 394: “modoy 'spider which doesn't bite' […] modoi - spider that does not bite”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “modoy”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021