weichü
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | weichü |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | weichö |
| New Tribes | weichö |
Etymology
[edit]From w- (intransitive prefix) + ei (“to be”) + -dü (action nominalizer).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]weichü (possessed weichü)
- life
- health
- way of living, way of being
- 2008, speakers ‘Jdk’ and ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (ConvChurB.018–021), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 337:
- Jdk. “Ye'kwana weichü natamei” ke wö'düadü.
Anl. ¡Yaatamedü!
Jdk. Tamedö natamei, wönwanö natamei, sü'na emi'chüdü natamei […]- Jdk. I say that the Ye’kwana’s way of life has ended.
Anl. It’s coming to an end!
Jdk. Everything has ended, the dance has ended, taking dogs hunting has ended […]
- Jdk. I say that the Ye’kwana’s way of life has ended.
- 2008, speakers ‘Jdk’ and ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (ConvChurB.018–021), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 337:
- living person or people
- lifetime, time of (someone)
Verb
[edit]weichü
- verbal noun of ei
References
[edit]- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 228, 402: “[wei'čï] 'living people, family' […] wei'chü - people, family (living persons)”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “weiʔčɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], 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[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 216–217: “weichö”