müde'kö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	müde'kö
Brazilian standard	möde'kä
New Tribes	möde'cä

Alternative forms

• mude'kö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From müdeshi (“youth”) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɨɾ̠eʔkə]

Noun

müde'kö

1. (Caura River dialect) child, from the time when it learns to walk until puberty

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “müde'kö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mudekö:kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “mudekə̄kə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 230–232: “mudecacä”