modhoi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	modhoi
Brazilian standard	modhoi
New Tribes	modhoi

Alternative forms

• modoi (Cunucunuma River dialect)
• *moyoi (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mojoti (“spider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [moðoj]

Noun

modhoi

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect and Brazil) the Brazilian wandering spider, Phoneutria sp.

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “modhoi”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 229, 394: “modoy 'spider which doesn't bite' […] [mọdoi] 'spider which doesn't bite' […] modoi - spider that does not bite”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “modoy”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021