weyu
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | weyu |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | weyu |
| New Tribes | weyu |
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *weju (“sun”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]weyu (possessed weyudu)
- rays of the sun, sunbeams
- summer, the dry season (roughly February to April), the start of the annual cycle and season of clearing and planting gardens, hunting and fishing, and the start of new construction
- year
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]| Seasons in Ye'kwana(layout · text) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weyu, wedu (“summer”) | chukwamedawö (“start of winter”) | konojawö (“rainy season”) | dadiweyudu (“short summer”) | yatamedawö (“end of the year”) |
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]weyu
- Alternative form of wiyu (“malevolent water spirit”)
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wedu, wiyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wedu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wedɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], 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[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 201: “weyu”
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 27: “weyu”