wetuje

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV wetuje
Brazilian standard wetuufe
New Tribes wetuuje

Etymology

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Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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wetuje

  1. being sleepy, tired

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wetuje”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • 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 201, 246:wetuuje