wodi
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Swahili[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
wodi (n class, plural wodi)
- ward (part of a hospital where patients reside)
- ward (a protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision)
Ye'kwana[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *wôrɨti; compare Apalaí (w)oryxi, Kari'na woryi, Trió wëri, Wayana wëlïi, Akawaio wuri, Macushi wîri, Pemon wörü, Yao (South America) waryee.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wodi (possessed wodichü)
- woman, female human being
- (when possessed) female cross-cousin (of a man)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wodi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 112
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wodi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wodi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- The template Template:R:mch:Monterrey does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.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, pages 62–65, 68, 76
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