Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ennujaicho
Brazilian standard ennufaicho
New Tribes ennujaicho

Etymology

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From ennu (to be born) +‎ -jai (able to) +‎ -ato (nominalizer).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ennujaicho

  1. fetus

References

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  • 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 219:ennujaicho