jaase

jaase

Maquiritari

Alternative forms

• (Ye'kwana) ja'se

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷaːse]

Noun

jaase (De'kwana dialect)

1. (in relation to a man) sister’s daughter, sororal niece
2. (in relation to a woman) brother’s daughter, fraternal niece
3. female parallel cousin’s daughter
   1. father’s brother’s daughter’s daughter
   2. mother’s sister’s daughter’s daughter
4. male cross-cousin’s daughter
   1. father’s sister’s son’s daughter
   2. mother’s brother’s son’s daughter
5. great-granddaughter
6. sibling’s great-granddaughter, great-grandniece

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ja'se”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “hāse”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 62–65, 71, 75