shii awono ökato

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	shii awono ökato
Brazilian standard	shii awoono äkaato
New Tribes	shii awoono äcaato
historical ad hoc	shi awono akato

Etymology

From shii (“sun”) +‎ awö (“at, in, on”) +‎ -ano (nominalizer) +‎ ökato (“shadow, reflection, spirit, double”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃiː aβoːno əkaːto]

Noun

shii awono ökato

1. Synonym of shii ekato (“sun spirit, shadow cast by the sun”).

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 50–51: “shi awono akato”
• 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 207: “shi awano äcato”