koyojinña
Maquiritari
Etymology
Related to koijai (“night”), with a suffix -nña (“at the place of”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kojohʷinɲa]
Adverb
koyojinña
- (Maquiritari mythology) in the underground and underwater world, inhabited by dangerous supernatural beings
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 189
- de Civrieux, Marc (1985) “Medatia: A Makiritare Shaman’s Tale” in Guss, David M. (editor), The Language of the Birds: Tales, Texts, and Poems of Interspecies Communication, pages 63, 69