ayawa

Kari'na

Noun

ayawa

1. Alternative form of ajawa

Ye'kwana

FWOTD – 5 September 2022

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ayawa
Brazilian standard	ayaawa
New Tribes	ayaawa

Alternative forms

• adhawa (Cunucunuma River dialect and Brazil)
• adawa (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ajaːwa]

Noun

ayawa (Caura River dialect)

1. a tree, Protium heptaphyllum, from which a sticky transparent liquid is extracted and used to make torches and bodypaint
2. a torch, a light, typically made from this liquid wrapped in Oenocarpus bataua leaves
3. the bodypaint made from this liquid
4. bodypaint in general

Derived terms

• ayawaichudu

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ayawa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “adhaawa”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 218, 385: “[ada:wa] ~ [aða:wa] 'flare' […] ada:wa - light, torch”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “adāwa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• 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 63–65, 103, 144–146, 242: “ayawa”