Sedume
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- Sedüme
Etymology
The related element found in Sedujiyanadi is said by Guss to mean ‘the Thinker’,[1] and Gongora glosses another related term sedujedüködömma as ‘your intelligence’.[2] Perhaps compare sejje (“intelligence”), possessed form sejjedü.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [seɾ̠uːme]
Proper noun
Sedume
- Synonym of Wanasedume
- Synonym of Wanasedu
- One of a small number of temporary names given to a baby boy at birth until a true name can be determined
References
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 45, 49, 62–63, 109, 118, 227–228, 326–327, 330
- 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 54
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 238