Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wehumma]Category:Ye'kwana terms with IPA pronunciation#WEJUMMA

Noun

wejummaCategory:Ye'kwana lemmas#WEJUMMACategory:Ye'kwana nouns#WEJUMMACategory:Ye'kwana entries with incorrect language header#WEJUMMACategory:Pages with entries#WEJUMMACategory:Pages with 1 entry#WEJUMMA

1. any ceremonial chant (aichudi) used to call or attract people to a place or person, for example to promote the growth of a village or to call the double/spirit (ökato) of a sick person back from death

   Antonym: wesankwa

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wejumma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 402: “wehu:mma - transporting a person to another spot; ritual blowing”
• 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 48: “Wejunma”
• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020), The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People‎, Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, pages 90–91