shiichu wamodetatojo

Maquiritari

Etymology

From shiichu (“baby”) +‎ w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ aamödeta (“to transform”) +‎ -tojo (instrumental nominalizer), thus ‘transformer of the baby’.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ʃiːt͡ʃu wamoɾ̠etatohʷo]

Noun

shiichu wamodetatojo

  1. ovaries

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 194
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