müdeshi

== Ye'kwana == === Alternative forms === müdesi (Caura River dialect) mudeshi (Cunucunuma River dialect) === Etymology === Ultimately from Proto-Cariban *mure (“child”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [mɨɾ̠eːʃi] === Noun === müdeshi (Caura River dialect) youth, bachelor, unmarried but eligible young person ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “müdesi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “mude:shi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University Hall, Katherine (2007), “mudēši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021 Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005), Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 242–243: “mudeshi”