imuntajaicho

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	imuntajaicho
Brazilian standard	imuntajaicho
New Tribes	imuntajaicho

Etymology

From i- (adverbializer) +‎ munta (“to bleed; to menstruate”) +‎ -jai (abilitative adverbializer) +‎ -ato (nominalizer), thus literally ‘one (potentially) able to bleed’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [imuntahajt͡ʃo]

Noun

imuntajaicho

1. girl in early puberty, before menarche

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 236: “imuntajaicho”