öddaajö

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV öddaajö
Brazilian standard äddaajä
New Tribes äddaajä
historical ad hoc adahe, adaha

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From addö (to clear (a garden)) +‎ -ajö (perfective past nominalizer).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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öddaajö

  1. (Caura River dialect) conuco, large slash-and-burn garden planted in two concentric circles

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öddaajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “äudwaajä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “awdwa:hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “awdwāhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “adahe”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 175:adahe: Conuco.
  • 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, page 33:adaha