ödemi eyajö

== Ye'kwana == === Alternative forms === ödemi edhajö, ödemi edajö (Cunucunuma River dialect) === Etymology === From ödemi (“song, chant”) +‎ öyajö (“possessor, master”) +‎ -∅ (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘possessor of song’. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [əɾ̠eːmi ejaːhə] === Noun === ödemi eyajö (plural ödemi eyamo) (Caura River dialect) a master storyteller, singer, and ritual specialist in the Ye'kwana tradition, one who has been instructed in all traditional chants by a previous ödemi eyajö === References === Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005), Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 183–186: “edemi edamo” Andrade, Karenina Vieira (2013) “Alteridades (in)corporadas: notas sobre a chefia ye’kuana” in Anuário Antropológico, volume 38, number 1, page 74