wodi

See also: wodí and wòdǐ

Swahili

Alternative forms

• wadi

Etymology

Borrowed from English ward.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Noun

wodi (n class, plural wodi)

1. ward (part of a hospital where patients reside)
2. ward (a protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision)

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wodi
Brazilian standard	wodi
New Tribes	wodi

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wôrɨti; compare Apalaí (w)oryxi, Kari'na woryi, Trió wëri, Wayana wëlïi, Akawaio wuri, Macushi wîri, Pemon wörü, Yao (South America) waryee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [βoɾ̠i]

Noun

wodi (possessed wodichü)

1. woman, female human being
2. (when possessed) female cross-cousin (of a man)

Derived terms

• wodi'chö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wodi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 112
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wodi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wodi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• 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, pages 62–65, 68, 76: “wodi’chü”