wadeku

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Variant orthographies
ALIV wadeku
Brazilian standard wadeeku
New Tribes wadeecu

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

wadeku (possessed wadekui)

  1. cotton, Gossypium barbadense
  2. cotton as a substance, cotton fiber

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wadeku”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wade:ku:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wadēkū”, 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, page 31:wadeku
  • Briceño, Luis García (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths[3], London: London School of Economics and Political Science, page 81:wadecu