wejumma

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wehumma]

Noun

wejumma

1. any ceremonial chant (aichudi) used to call or attract people to a place or person, for example to promote the growth of a village or to call the double/spirit (ökato) of a sick person back from death

   Antonym: wesankwa

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wejumma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wehu:mma”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 48: “Wejunma”
• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People, page 90–91