ada'komo

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Variant orthographies
ALIV ada'komo
Brazilian standard ada'komo
New Tribes ada'como

Etymology[edit]

From ade / a'ye (“while brief, short, ephemeral”) +‎ -ato (nominalizer) +‎ -komo (plural suffix).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ada'komo

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect, in the plural) mortals, ephemeral creatures

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 201, 216, 246: “adhacomo […] adhecomo”
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