ada'komo

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From ade / a'ye (“while brief, short, ephemeral”) +‎ -ato (nominalizer) +‎ -komo (plural suffix).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [aɾ̠aʔkomo]

Noun

ada'komo

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect, in the plural) mortals, ephemeral creatures

Derived terms

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 201, 216, 246
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