shiichu weja'kadü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV shiichu weja'kadü
Brazilian standard shiichu weja'kadö
New Tribes shiichu weja'cadö
historical ad hoc sichu hiyacadi

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From shiichu (baby) +‎ w- (intransitive marker) +‎ eja'ka (to come out) +‎ -dü (action nominalizer), thus literally ‘the coming out of the baby’.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ʃiːt͡ʃu wehaʔkaɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

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shiichu weja'kadü

  1. public ceremonial chant (ödemi) sung when bringing a newborn out of the village roundhouse for the first time, after its umbilical cord has fallen off, symbolically introducing it to the world

References

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  • 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, pages 36, 65, 145:sichu hiyacadi
  • 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 226:shichucä ijacadö
  • Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris[2], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 209:shiichu'kä weja'kadö