wo'mo ansai

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wo'mo ansai
Brazilian standard	wo'mo ansai
New Tribes	wo'mo ansai

Etymology

From wo'mo (“necklace”) +‎ ansai (possessed form of ansa (“necklace”)), thus literally ‘ansa-necklace of the wo’mo necklace’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [βoʔmo ansaj]

Noun

wo'mo ansai

1. a kind of traditional necklace

References

• 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, page 46: “womo ansai”