imuntajaicho

== Ye'kwana == === Etymology === From i- (adverbializer) +‎ munta (“to bleed; to menstruate”) +‎ -jai (abilitative adverbializer) +‎ -ato (nominalizer), thus literally ‘one (potentially) able to bleed’. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [imuntahajt͡ʃo] === Noun === imuntajaicho girl in early puberty, before menarche === 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, page 236: “imuntajaicho”