Ye'kwana jüüdü

== Ye'kwana == === Alternative forms === Dhe'kwana jüüdü, De'kwana jüüdü (Cunucunuma River dialect) === Etymology === From ye'kwana (“Ye'kwana”) +‎ jüü (“mountain”) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ɟeʔkʷana hʷɨːɾ̠ɨ] === Proper noun === Ye'kwana jüüdü (Caura River dialect) Mount Dekuana in the Parima Mountains, treated in legend as the origin place of the Ye'kwana === References === de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “Dekuhana (Dekuana)”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN 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, page 190: “Ye’kwanajödö”