öyajö
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (De'kwana) ödajö
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [əjahə]
Noun
öyajö (possessed öyajö or eyajö, possessed plural öyamo or eyamo) (Ye'kwana dialect)
- master, ruler, chief
- possessor
- Synonym of adai (“primeval progenitor and culture hero of an animal species”)
Derived terms
- ödemi eyajö
- aichudi eyajö
- wötunnö eyajö
References
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “ədāhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “öyajö, -amo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 104
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “e:da:mo, öda:jö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- 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 31, 52, 54, 101–102, 108, 133–134
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 69