Sedume

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	Sedume
Brazilian standard	Seduume
New Tribes	Seduume

Alternative forms

Sedüme

Etymology

The related element found in Sedujiyanadi is said by Guss to mean ‘the Thinker’,^[1] and Gongora glosses another related term sedujedüködömma as ‘your intelligence’.^[2] Perhaps compare sejje (“intelligence”), possessed form sejjedü.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [seɾ̠uːme]

Proper noun

Sedume

Synonym of Wanasedume
Synonym of Wanasedu
One of a small number of temporary names given to a baby boy at birth until a true name can be determined

References

Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[2], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 45, 49, 62–63, 109, 118, 227–228, 326–327, 330: “Seduume […] Sedööme”

^ 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 54
^ Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[1], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 238

[1] 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 54

[2] Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[1], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 238

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