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yaichuuma

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV yaichuuma
Brazilian standard yaichuuma
New Tribes yaichuuma

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From aichudi (traditional private chant performed to purify something of ritual pollution) +‎ -ma (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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yaichuuma (Caura River dialect, transitive)

  1. to blow on
  2. to blow away
  3. to bless

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yaichuuma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “yaichuma:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yaičumā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021