Hunt; individual or small group hunt.

Pequi fruit (Caryocar brasiliense).

Secular age set name (may derive from abare).

Wrist and ankle straps (used in spiritual rituals).

Tracking animals during hunts.

Sorcery. Also see simi’ö.

Married woman without child (“childless wife”), young bride (informal female age grade).

Wedding meat (game meat given by a groom to the family of his bride).

Male, man. Also initiated adult male (age-graded kinship term).

Age set leadership position.

Term of address for a ceremonial father. See danhorebzu’wa.

Male adolescent (informal male age grade).

Secular age set name. Also guariroba palm (Syagrus oleracea).

Secular age set name (distinguished from a junior age set with the same name, ai’rere).

Feces.

Secular age set name (may derive from anhana).

Secular age set name (distinguished from a junior age set with the same name, anhanarowa).

Married woman with child (informal age grade, infrequently used). Also see ĩ’raré.

Puma (Puma concolor).

Infant, child, fetus (informal male and female age grade).

A heritable prerogative ownership (women’s naming ceremony coordinator, or “baby maker,” “baby organizer”).

Infant (diminutive); small infant, newborn.

Junior category within younger spiritual age grades.

“Baby work,” whereby a father wore special painted ear plugs to stimulate pregnancy and influence the trajectory of the child’s physical development toward maleness or femaleness.

Adolescent girl (informal female age grade).

Female child, girl (informal female age grade).

Female child (diminutive), young/small girl.

Nighttime visits by a young man to the house of his future wife (“to walk only at night” or “to visit only at night”).

Grandson (kinship term). Also uninitiated male (age-graded kinship term).

Formal friend, third person (ceremonial comrade in the opposite exogamous moiety).

Marriage ceremony.

Formal wedding ceremony (“meat basket wedding”).

Informal, abbreviated wedding ceremony.

Members of the fourth older secular age set; mentor’s mentors, third person.

Novitiate adult, young adult (formal age grade). Also see ’ritei’wa.

Guard, soldier (spiritual age grade).

Chief, formal community leadership position.

Parents-in-law, third person.

Spouse (wife or husband).

Traditionalist form of community leaders whose status derives from a combination of genealogy, seniority, personal capacity, and prestige. Also see danhim’hö’a.

Left, left side (may refer to left side of the community and its associated age set moiety).

Traditionalist form of community leaders whose status derives from a combination of genealogy, seniority, personal capacity, and prestige. Also see danhim’apito.

Right, right side (may refer to right side of the community and its associated age set moiety).

Strong, vigorous. Also see siptede.

Healthful, strengthening (especially foods).

Modesty, shame, respect.

Imitation (may refer to learning through imitation).

Mentor to the age set whose male members occupy the preinitiate house, third person.

Secular age set initiation rites (mark passage into novitiate adulthood).

Collective singing and dancing performances, performed around the community in front of residences, with participants joined with clasped hands in a circle.

Cotton necktie knotted in front and affixed with an ethnobiological insert in back.

Ceremonial father (a mother’s brother who assumes certain ceremonial responsibilities for a sister’s children).

An individual boy’s personal mentor, chosen by the boy’s father from among his age set’s mentors (danhohui’wa), third person.

Boys’ ear-piercing ceremony marking impending advancement to novitiate adulthood.

Ceremonial ear piercer.

A heritable prerogative ownership (master of ear piercers).

“Opening your mind” (to adult ways of thinking), a goal for preinitiates while residing in the preinitiate house.

Quindecinnial spiritual initiation rites.

Dietary restrictions observed by parents during and soon after pregnancy to protect their child from ill effects, including sickness and death.

Together with, joined.

To set an example for young people to learn through observation and imitation.

Part of danhono initiation rites; an endurance exercise involving boys vigorously splashing water in the river.

Initiation rites marking transition from novitiate adulthood to mature adulthood, held separately for women and men.

Girlfriend or fiancée, a girl whose future husband visits her at night.

Mother, categorical mother (vocative kinship term).

Secular age set.

Blood.

Mourning song.

Second staggered induction group into an age set (“middle penis sheath”).

Breath, bad breath.

Age set inauguration ceremony.

Daughter-in-law.

Son-in-law.

Group hunt employing fire to flush out game animals.

Secular age set name. Also, “scarce stone,” used as mortar or hammer stone.

Secular age set name (distinguished from a junior age set with the same name, êtẽpa).

Ceremonial stage and minor formal age grade during secular age set initiation rites (danhono).

Preinitiate house (residence of preinitiates under supervision of their mentors), located just beyond ring of residences and in symbolic isolation from community.

The other secular age set moiety; people in the other secular age set moiety.

Fourth staggered induction group into a secular age set.

“Descendants of the first creators” (Graham 1995, 19).

A men’s trek, without the participation of women, usually undertaken for the primary purpose of hunting.

Secular age set name. Also oscar fish (Astronotus spp.).

Coresident of the preinitiate house (hö); a specific protégé to a specific mentor (danimiwanho). Also age-graded kinship term.

Preinitiate protégés (members of the wapté formal age grade under the guidance of danhohui’wa mentors).

Formal friend, first person (ceremonial comrade in the opposite exogamous moiety).

Older same-gender sibling (kinship term).

Elder (informal male and female age grade).

Sister, categorical sister (kinship term for male speakers).

Elder (diminutive), young elder.

Brother, categorical brother (kinship term).

Members of one’s next oldest age set (used until the speaker’s age set has attained mature adulthood).

Old person (“old life/body”).

Young person (“young life/body”).

Father, categorical father (kinship term).

Father’s brother, categorical father’s brother (referential kinship term).

Mother’s brother, categorical mother’s brother (referential kinship term).

Extended ceremonial hunt held during the final stages of secular age set initiation rites for the benefit of pahöri’wa and tebé ceremonial designees.

Parents-in-law, first person.

Mother’s brother, categorical mother’s brother (vocative kinship term).

Age set leadership position.

Mother, categorical mother (referential kinship term).

Mother’s sister, categorical mother’s sister (referential kinship term).

Term used reciprocally throughout life between protégés and mentors in the secular age group system.

Younger same-gender sibling (kinship term).

Mature adult (formal age grade).

Elder category within younger spiritual age grades.

“Young animal” or “new growth.”

Grandparent (kinship term).

Male and female children of categorical sisters (vocative kinship term).

Married woman with child (informal age grade). Also see araté.

Scout (male member of dahí’wa or ’ritei’wa age grade or first age set in iprédu age grade who has been trained for territorial surveillance.)

Penis sheath (precontact article of clothing).

First staggered induction group into an age set (“first penis sheath”).

Third staggered induction group into an age set (“last penis sheath”).

Brother’s wife and wife’s sister (vocative kinship term).

Father’s sister, categorical father’s sister (kinship term).

Beautiful, good.

Ceremonial mantle made of buriti leaves, worn by tebé age set ceremonial leaders while leading sprinting races across the community plaza during the initial stages of quinquennial rites of initiation into novitiate adulthood (danhono).

Traditional (A’uwẽ) maize (Zea mays).

Secular age set name (may derive from nozö).

“People on their side” (may be used for age set moieties, exogamous moieties, and other instances of sidedness).

Ceremonial club fight.

“Their side” (may be used for age set moieties, exogamous moieties, and other instances of sidedness).

Granddaughter (kinship term). Also girl (age-graded kinship term).

Exogamous moiety name (Big Water).

Age set ceremonial position and associated ceremony.

A heritable prerogative ownership (owner of pahöri’wa).

Female, woman. Also married female with child (age-graded kinship term).

Boyfriend or fiancé, a young man who visits his future wife at night.

Exogamous moiety name (Tadpole).

First, old (used as suffix with secular age set names to distinguish senior from junior age sets).

Male adolescent (used for certain consanguineal kin, usually categorical sons, in the first descending generation of vocative kinship terminology).

House.

Novitiate adult, young adult (formal age grade). Also see dahí’wa.

To learn, to understand.

A daytime singing ceremony sponsored by female and/or male mentors for their protégés.

Secular age set name (may derive from dazada’ro).

Ceremonial foot race marking transition from novitiate to mature adulthood during dasi’tó rites of passage.

Weak, lacking fortitude.

Mature ceremonial child.

Sorcery. Also see abzé.

A heritable prerogative ownership (owners of sorcery).

Members of one’s next youngest age set (used until the referent age set has attained mature adulthood).

Strong, vigorous. Also see danhiptede.

Married female without child (age-graded kinship term).

Term used by fathers for their children’s ceremonial parents.

Ceremonial child (a sister’s child for whom a man performs certain rituals).

Age set ceremonial leaders appointed for secular age set initiation rites (danhono) by elder owners of the tepé’tede’wa heritable prerogative.

A heritable prerogative ownership (owner of tebé).

Fishing.

Arrow.

Tick (parasitic arachnid).

Sacred cane arrows (used in certain spiritual rituals).

Secular age set name (may derive from ti or ti’a).

Secular age set name (distinguished from a junior age set with the same name, tirowa).

A circular mark on the face used by a’uté’manhãri’wa heritable prerogative owners (Face Circle).

Final and solitary inductee into the preinitiate house.

Traditional (A’uwẽ) beans (Phaseolus spp.).

A heritable prerogative ownership (white-lipped peccary owner).

Ceremonial log race.

Ceremonial mentor’s group hunt.

Spiritual moiety name (rattle owners).

True, genuine.

Traditional (A’uwẽ) squash (Cucurbita spp.).

Lazy.

Ceremonial wrestling match.

Members of one’s next oldest age set (used until the referent age set has attained mature adulthood).

“People on our side” (may be used for age set moieties, exogamous moieties, and other instances of sidedness).

Traditions, customs, culture.

A complex of male spiritual rituals that involve male spiritual age group organization.

“People on the other spiritual side” (spiritual age set moiety).

Spiritual initiate (spiritual age grade).

Junior spiritual initiate.

Spiritual post-officiant (spiritual age grade).

Senior spiritual initiate.

Women who were admitted into men’s spiritual rituals following punishment for spiritual transgressions, discontinued in the present.

A heritable prerogative ownership (owner of “peace-keeper” sacred powder).

Ceremonial masks, worn during one of the final stages of initiation rites into novitiate adulthood (danhono).

“Our side” or “people on our side” (may be used for age set moieties and exogamous moieties).

Preinitiate (formal secular age grade).

Preinitiate induction rites.

Men’s council.

Non-Indigenous people, “white” people.

A heritable prerogative ownership (owner of non-Indigenous people).

Close bilateral kin (one’s close same-moiety kin and one’s first-degree cross-cousins).

Term of respect used reciprocally by real and categorical fathers of a bride and groom.

Any group of three people; a person who is “with us” (may be used for age set moieties, exogamous moieties, and other instances of sidedness).

“Separated from us” or “people separated from us” (may be used for age set moieties, exogamous moieties, and other instances of sidedness).

“People on our spiritual side” (spiritual age set moiety).

Members of one’s age set that are in the same exogamous moiety or that one considers particularly intimate friends.

Members of one’s age set who are also in one’s exogamous moiety, one’s first-degree cousins, or socially very close.

One’s genealogically close same-moiety categorical siblings.

One’s genealogically distant categorical siblings or distant members of one’s exogamous moiety.

Boy, male child (informal age grade).

Boy (diminutive), male child (diminutive), young/small boy.

Ceremonial stage during secular age set initiation rites (danhono), characterized by water-splashing exercises.

Spiritual preinitiate.

“Our secular age set moiety” or “people in our secular age set moiety.”

Spiritual moiety name (wood owners).

Men’s wooden ear plugs.

Good, well.

Adolescent girl (used for certain consanguineal kin in first descending generation of vocative kinship terminology).

Trekking, walking, going on excursions outside the community with entire families.

Singer (spiritual age grade).