De'kwana jüüdü

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Ye'kwana jüüdü (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From de'kwana (“Ye'kwana”) +‎ jüü (“mountain”) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [deʔkʷana hʷɨːɾ̠ɨ]

Proper noun

De'kwana jüüdü

(Cunucunuma River dialect) Mount Dekuana in the Parima Mountains, treated in legend as the origin place of the Ye'kwana

References

de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Dekuhana (Dekuana)”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 190

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