adai
See also: adaí, adáʼi, ādai, and Adai
Laz
Etymology
Compare Turkish aday.
Noun
adai
- candidate, nominee
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aɾ̠aj]
Noun
adai (possessed adaichü)
- origin
- the primeval prototype, progenitor, and culture hero of a given species of animal or kind of object; animal ‘Master’
- Synonym: ödajö
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “adai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- 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 31, 52, 54, 101–102, 108, 133–134
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “sadashe”, 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 189–190, 235
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 69