aji'choto'jato

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	aji'choto'jato
Brazilian standard	aji'choto'fato
New Tribes	aji'choto'jato

Etymology

From aji'choto (“girl staying in seclusion after undergoing menarche”) +‎ -'jato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ahiʔt͡ʃotoʔhʷato]

Noun

aji'choto'jato

1. young woman

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aji'choto'jato”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon