adha'komo

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	adha'komo
Brazilian standard	adha'komo
New Tribes	adha'como

Etymology

From adhe / a'ye (“while brief, short, ephemeral”) +‎ -ato (nominalizer) +‎ -komo (plural suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aðaʔkomo]

Noun

adha'komo

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect, in the plural) mortals, ephemeral creatures

Derived terms

• adha'komo weyudu

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, pages 201, 216, 246: “adhacomo […] adhecomo”