imuntajaicho

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV imuntajaicho
Brazilian standard imuntajaicho
New Tribes imuntajaicho

Etymology

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From i- (adverbializer) +‎ munta (to bleed; to menstruate) +‎ -jai (abilitative adverbializer) +‎ -ato (nominalizer), thus literally ‘one (potentially) able to bleed’.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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imuntajaicho

  1. girl in early puberty, before menarche

References

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  • 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, page 236:imuntajaicho