audaajö

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• öddaajö (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From audö (“to clear (a garden)”) +‎ -ajö (perfective past nominalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [awɾ̠ʷaːhə]

Noun

audaajö

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) conuco, large slash-and-burn garden planted in two concentric circles

Derived terms

• audaajö edemi'jüdü

References

• Hall, Katherine (2007) “awdwāhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öddaajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “awdwa:hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “adahe”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 33