imuntajaicho

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From i- (adverbializer) +‎ munu (“blood”) +‎ -ta (verbalizer) +‎ -jai (abilitative adverbializer) +‎ -ato (nominalizer), thus literally ‘one (potentially) able to bleed’.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [imuntahajt͡ʃo]

Noun

imuntajaicho

  1. girl in early puberty, before menarche

References
  • The template Template:R:mch:Fertility does not use the parameter(s): 
    head=imuntajaicho
    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.