weyu

== Ye'kwana == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [weju] === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Cariban *weju (“sun”). ==== Alternative forms ==== wedu ==== Noun ==== weyu (possessed weyudu) rays of the sun, sunbeams summer, the dry season (roughly February to April), the start of the annual cycle and season of clearing and planting gardens, hunting and fishing, and the start of new construction year ===== Derived terms ===== ===== See also ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== weyu alternative form of wiyu (“malevolent water spirit”) === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wedu, wiyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “wedu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University Hall, Katherine (2007), “wedɨ”, 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, page 201: “weyu” Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012), Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 27: “weyu”