jejeichö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jejeichö
Brazilian standard	fejeichä
New Tribes	jejeichä

Alternative forms

• jejenchö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pepeitô. Compare Kari'na pepeito, Trió pepei, Akawaio peseto, Yao (South America) pepeïte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷehejt͡ʃə]

Noun

jejeichö

1. (Brazil) wind

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “fejeichä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hehe:nchö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hehēnčə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021