imuntajaicho
Maquiritari
Etymology
From i- (adverbializer) + munu (“blood”) + -ta (verbalizer) + -jai (abilitative adverbializer) + -ato (nominalizer), thus literally ‘one (potentially) able to bleed’.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [imuntahajt͡ʃo]
Noun
imuntajaicho
- girl in early puberty, before menarche
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 236