yaji
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɟahi]
Noun
yaji
- the agami or grey-winged trumpeter, Psophia crepitans
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “yaji”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “yaji”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (in Maquiritari and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 124
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “iahi”, in , David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- 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 36
Martuthunira
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jaci/
Noun
yaji
- The father of one's wife; father-in-law.
References
- Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.
Nupe
Etymology
From jìyà (“to be poor”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jà.d͡ʒì/
Noun
yàjì
- poverty
Derived terms
- yàjìnci (“poor person”)