ö'sa

See also: osa and ösa

Maquiritari

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [əʔsa]

Noun

ö'sa

  1. the circular outer area of a village roundhouse (öttö), divided into rooms or compartments that each house an individual extended family
  2. room of a building
  3. (in modern, more dispersed villages) house, home, or the collection of houses surrounding the öttö

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ö'sa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ö'sa, ö'saka”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “əʔsa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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 25–26, 32
  • 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 49–50
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