wodi
See also: wòdǐ
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [βoɾ̠i]
Noun
wodi (possessed wodichü)
- woman, female human being
- female cross-cousin (of a man)
Derived terms
- wodi'chö
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wodi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “wodi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “wodi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 62–65, 68, 76
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from English ward.
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
wodi (n class, plural wodi)
- ward (a protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision)