jejenchö
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Ye'kwana[edit]
| Bolívar state | jejenchö |
|---|---|
| Brazil | fejenchä |
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *pepeitô. Compare Kari'na pepeito, Trió pepei, Akawaio peseto, Yao (South America) pepeïte.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
jejenchö
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) wind
References[edit]
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “fejeichä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hehe:nchö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “hehēnčə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021