ada'komo
Maquiritari
Etymology
From ade / a'ye (“while brief, short, ephemeral”) + -ato (nominalizer) + -komo (plural suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aɾ̠aʔkomo]
Noun
ada'komo
- (De'kwana dialect, in the plural) mortals, ephemeral creatures
Derived terms
- ada'komo weyudu
References
- 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 201, 216