wiyu

See also: Wiyu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wiyu
Brazilian standard	wiyu
New Tribes	wiyu

Alternative forms

• weyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wiju]

Noun

wiyu

1. a malevolent water spirit of fecundity that can take the form of an anaconda, a person, etc., and causes floods and kidnaps people as a creation of the water goddess Wiyu

   Synonym: mawadi

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wiyu”, 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, page 195: “Wiyu”