De'kwana jüüdü

Maquiritari

Alternative forms

(Ye'kwana) Ye'kwana jüüdü

Etymology

From de'kwana (“Maquiritari”) +‎ jüü (“mountain”) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [deʔkʷana hʷɨːɾ̠ɨ]

Proper noun

De'kwana jüüdü

(De'kwana dialect) Mount Dekuana in the Parima Mountains, treated in legend as the origin place of the Maquiritari

References

de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “Dekuhana (Dekuana)”, in , David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 190

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