adai

From Proto-Malayic *ada (“to be, exist”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada (“to be, exist”). For the negation sense, compare Javanese ora, Tagalog wala.

• IPA^(key): [adai]

adai

1. not (negates meaning of verb)

   Adai ngirup aku

   I do not drink

2. not (to no degree)

   Adai mar baju nya

   The shirt is not expensive

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wada”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

adai

1. (dated) embroidered lid

Compare Turkish aday.

adai

1. candidate, nominee

• IPA^(key): [aɾ̠aj]

adai (possessed adaichü)

1. origin
2. the primeval prototype, progenitor, and culture hero of a given species of animal or kind of object; animal ‘Master’

   Synonym: öyajö

In non-Ye’kwana writings on Ye’kwana anthropology and mythology, this word is often cited as sadashe or arache, loose renderings of the possessed form of the word, properly adaichü.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “adai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• 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 31, 52, 54, 101–102, 108, 133–134: “arache”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “sadashe”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 189–190, 235: “adaichö”
• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[3], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 69: “adaichö”