weijüdü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	weijüdü
Brazilian standard	weijhödö
New Tribes	weijödö

Etymology

From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ ei (“to be”) +‎ -'jüdü (past action nominalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wejçɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

weijüdü

1. former lifetime, time of (someone)

References

• 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 193: “weijödö”