weyu

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Cariban *weju (“sun”).

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

weyu (possessed weyudu)

  1. rays of the sun, sunbeams
  2. summer, the dry season (roughly February to April), the start of the annual cycle and season of clearing and planting gardens, hunting and fishing, and the start of new construction
  3. year
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Seasons in Ye'kwana(layout · text)
weyu, wedu (“summer”) chukwamedawö (“start of winter”) konojawö (“rainy season”) dadiweyudu (“short summer”) yatamedawö (“end of the year”)

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

weyu

  1. Alternative form of wiyu (“malevolent water spirit”)

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wedu, wiyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wedu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wedɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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