tuna jedü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tuna jedü
Brazilian standard	tuna fedö
New Tribes	tuna jedö

Etymology

From tuna (“water”) +‎ jedü (“face”), literally “face of the water”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tuna hʷeɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

tuna jedü

1. riverbank, shore

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tuna jedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon