nuunö awono ökato
Maquiritari
Etymology
From nuunö (“moon”) + awö (“at, in, on”) + -ano (nominalizer) + ökato (“shadow, reflection, spirit, double”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [nuːnə aβono əkato]
Noun
nuunö awono ökato
- Synonym of nuunö ekato (“moon spirit, shadow cast by the moon”).
References
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 50–51
- 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 207