wodi

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See also: wodí and wòdǐ

Swahili

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English ward.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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wodi (n class, plural wodi)

  1. ward (part of a hospital where patients reside)
  2. ward (a protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision)

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV wodi
Brazilian standard wodi
New Tribes wodi

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *wôrɨti; compare Apalaí (w)oryxi, Kari'na woryi, Trió wëri, Wayana wëlïi, Akawaio wuri, Macushi wîri, Pemon wörü, Yao (South America) waryee.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wodi (possessed wodichü)

  1. woman, female human being
  2. (when possessed) female cross-cousin (of a man)

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wodi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 112
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wodi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wodi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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, pages 62–65, 68, 76:wodi’chü