shiichu wamodetatojo

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	shiichu wamodetatojo
Brazilian standard	shiichu wamoodetaatofo
New Tribes	shiichu wamoodetaatojo

Etymology

From shiichu (“baby”) +‎ w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ aamödeta (“to transform”) +‎ -tojo (instrumental nominalizer), thus ‘transformer of the baby’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃiːt͡ʃu wamoːɾ̠etaːtohʷo]

Noun

shiichu wamodetatojo

1. ovaries

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 194: “shichu wamodetatojo”