tüdüemü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tüdüemü
Brazilian standard	tödööemö
New Tribes	tödööemö
historical ad hoc	tidi'uma

Etymology

From t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ üdü (“to do, to make”) +‎ -mü (patient nominalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɨɾ̠ɨːemɨ]

Noun

tüdüemü

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

   Antonym: müsoma

References

• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People‎^[1], 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 69–70, 88, 91: “tidi'uma”