mudeshi
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (Ye'kwana) müdeshi, müdesi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [muɾ̠eːʃi]
Noun
mudeshi
- (De'kwana dialect) youth, bachelor, unmarried but eligible young person
Derived terms
- mude'kö
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “müdesi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “mude:shi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “mudēši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- 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 242–243