kaaya person or human being / ‘peón’, someone working for a ‘patrón’ [...]

Part of Speech	noun
Irregular Plural	kaayaaka
Root	kaaya

1. • person or human being
2. • ‘peón’, someone working for a ‘patrón’ (<paaturuu>). The classic ‘patrón’-‘peón’ relationship flourished in Iquito territory from the beginning of the 20th century but began to wane in the 1950s, largely disappearing by the 1980s. The ‘peón’ was generally advanced material goods, from working implements to clothing and other personal affects, for which the ‘patrón’ charged exorbitantly high prices in comparison to the wages he paid the ‘peón’, effectively keeping the latter in a quasi-slave-like debt relationship with the ‘patrón’

   Grammar Note

   Poss.pref. in this sense

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• Main Entry:
  • waarata kaaya aatiáana nosy person who is overly concerned with the matters of their neighbors, often maliciously, and is inclined to gossip about them
• Subentry:
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