ödemi
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [əɾ̠eːmi]
Noun
ödemi
- long (2–3 days) communal ceremonial chant performed at major events and festivals to purify involved objects of ritual pollution/taboo (amoi)
- Coordinate term: aichudi
- song, chant (in general)
Derived terms
- audaajö edemi'jüdü
- maji edemi'jüdü
- öttö edemi'jüdü
- tanükü edemi'jüdü
- toki edemi'jüdü
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ödemi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “öde:mi eda:mo”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “ademi”, in , David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- 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 65–67