Koyojinña

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	Koyojinña
Brazilian standard	Koyoofinnha
New Tribes	Coyoojinña

Etymology

Perhaps related to koijai (“night”), with a suffix -nña (“at the place of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kojoːhʷinɲa]

Adverb

Koyojinña

1. (Ye'kwana mythology) in the underground and underwater world, inhabited by dangerous supernatural beings

References

• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 189: “coyojiiña”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1985) “Medatia: A Makiritare Shaman’s Tale” in Guss, David M. (editor), The Language of the Birds: Tales, Texts, and Poems of Interspecies Communication, pages 63, 69