ayawa
Kari'na
[edit]Noun
[edit]ayawa
- Alternative form of ajawa
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | ayawa |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | ayaawa |
| New Tribes | ayaawa |
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ayawa (Caura River dialect)
- a tree, Protium heptaphyllum, from which a sticky transparent liquid is extracted and used to make torches and bodypaint
- a torch, a light, typically made from this liquid wrapped in Oenocarpus bataua leaves
- the bodypaint made from this liquid
- bodypaint in general
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- 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”