shiichu weja'kadü
Ye'kwana
Alternative forms
- shiichu'kö weja'kadü
Etymology
From shiichu (“baby”) + w- (intransitive marker) + eja'ka (“to come out”) + -dü (action nominalizer), thus literally ‘the coming out of the baby’.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʃiːt͡ʃu wehaʔkaɾ̠ɨ]
Noun
shiichu weja'kadü
- public ceremonial chant (ödemi) sung when bringing a newborn out of the village roundhouse for the first time, after its umbilical cord has fallen off, symbolically introducing it to the world
References
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