ödemi edajö
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Ye'kwana[edit]
| ALIV | ödemi edajö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | ädeemi edaajä |
| New Tribes | ädeemi edaajä |
Alternative forms[edit]
- ödemi eyajö (Caura River dialect)
Etymology[edit]
From ödemi (“song, chant”) + ödajö (“possessor, master”) + -∅ (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘possessor of song’.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ödemi edajö (plural ödemi edamo)
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) a master storyteller, singer, and ritual specialist in the Ye'kwana tradition, one who has been instructed in all traditional chants by a previous ödemi edajö
References[edit]
- 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, pages 183–186: “edemi edamo”
- Andrade, Karenina Vieira (2013) “Alteridades (in)corporadas: notas sobre a chefia ye’kuana” in Anuário Antropológico, volume 38, number 1, page 74