shiichu wamodetatojo

== Ye'kwana == === Etymology === From shiichu (“baby”) +‎ w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ aamödeta (“to transform”) +‎ -tojo (instrumental nominalizer), thus ‘transformer of the baby’. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ʃiːt͡ʃu wamoːɾ̠etaːtohʷo] === Noun === shiichu wamodetatojo ovaries === 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 194: “shichu wamodetatojo”