aji'choto weja'kadü

Maquiritari

Etymology

From aji'choto (“girl in seclusion after menarche”) +‎ w- (“intransitive marker”) +‎ eja'ka (“to come out”) +‎ -dü (action nominalizer), thus literally ‘the coming out of the girl in seclusion’.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ahiʔt͡ʃoto wehaʔkaɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

aji'choto weja'kadü

  1. coming-of-age ritual for girls performed after menarche, intended to protect them from Odo'sha in a dangerous time and introduce them to adulthood

References
  • 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 236–241
  • 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 154
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