wodi

See also: wòdǐ

Maquiritari

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [βoɾ̠i]

Noun

wodi (possessed wodichü)

  1. woman, female human being
  2. female cross-cousin (of a man)

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wodi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “wodi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “wodi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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 62–65, 68, 76

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English ward.

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun

wodi (n class, plural wodi)

  1. ward (a protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision)
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