weichü
Maquiritari
Etymology
From w- (intransitive prefix) + ei (“to be”) + -dü (action nominalizer).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [wejt͡ʃɨ]
Noun
weichü
- life
- health
- way of living, way of being
- living person or people
- lifetime, time of (someone)
Verb
weichü
- verbal noun of ei
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “wei'chü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “weiʔčɨ”, 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 216–217