yaji

Maquiritari

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɟahi]

Noun

yaji

  1. the agami or grey-winged trumpeter, Psophia crepitans

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “yaji”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “yaji”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (in Maquiritari and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 124
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “iahi”, in ,  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
  • 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 36

Martuthunira

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jaci/

Noun

yaji

  1. The father of one's wife; father-in-law.

References
  • Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

Nupe

Etymology

From jìyà (“to be poor”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jà.d͡ʒì/

Noun

yàjì

  1. poverty

Derived terms
  • yàjìnci (“poor person”)
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