Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV öwansi
Brazilian standard äwansi
New Tribes äwansi

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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öwansi (possessed öwansiñü or ewansiñü)

  1. (Caura River dialect) food, meal

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öwansi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 114
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “äwanshi”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ö:wainshi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 289, 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “əwainši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021