ada'komo weyudu
Maquiritari
Etymology
From ada'komo (“mortals, ephemeral creatures”) + weyu (“rays of the sun”) + -dü (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘sunrays of the ephemeral creatures’.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aɾ̠aʔkomo wejuɾ̠u]
Proper noun
ada'komo weyudu
- the visible Sun, as opposed to its never-setting invisible double or spirit (ökato)
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