müsoma

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	müsoma
Brazilian standard	mösooma
New Tribes	mösooma
historical ad hoc	mesoma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɨsoːma]

Noun

müsoma

1. objects or belongings acquired by trade or chance, as opposed to those made by the Ye'kwana

   Antonym: tüdüemü

Derived terms

• ensöma'tö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nsoma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People‎^[2], Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, page 128
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 69, 88: “mesoma”