shiichu weja'kadü

== Ye'kwana == === Alternative forms === shiichu'kö weja'kadü === Etymology === From shiichu (“baby”) +‎ w- (intransitive marker) +‎ eja'ka (“to come out”) +‎ -dü (action nominalizer), thus literally ‘the coming out of the baby’. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ʃiːt͡ʃu wehaʔkaɾ̠ɨ] === Noun === shiichu weja'kadü public ceremonial chant (ödemi) sung when bringing a newborn out of the village roundhouse for the first time, after its umbilical cord has fallen off, symbolically introducing it to the world === References === Guss, David M. (1989), To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 36, 65, 145: “sichu hiyacadi” 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 226: “shichucä ijacadö” Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017), Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎[2], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 209: “shiichu'kä weja'kadö”