naudö'jüdü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV naudö'jüdü
Brazilian standard naudä'födö
New Tribes naudä'jödö

Etymology

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From n- (transitive agent marker) +‎ audö (to clear (a garden)) +‎ -'jüdü (completed action nominalizer).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [nawɾ̠ʷəʔhʷɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

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naudö'jüdü

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) conuco or garden not ready to be cultivated

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ñadwahüdü, nadwöhüdü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289