ayadi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ayadi
Brazilian standard	ayaadi
New Tribes	ayaadi

Alternative forms

• adhadi, adadi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ajaːɾ̠i]

Noun

ayadi

1. (Caura River dialect and Brazil) barbasco, any of several vines such as Lonchocarpus sericeus or Piscidia carthagenensis used as a poison for fishing

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ayaadi”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], 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: “[a:da:di] ~ [a:ða:di] 'fishing with poison (sp. barbasco)' […] a:da:di - to fish with poison”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “barbasco (ayadi)”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• 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 27: “ayadi”