yaichuma
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (Ye'kwana) yaichuuma
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɟajt͡ʃuma]
Verb
yaichuma (De'kwana dialect, transitive)
- to blow on
- to blow away
- to bless
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “yaichuuma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “yaichuma:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “yaičumā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021