ayawa
Kari'na edit
Noun edit
ayawa
- Alternative form of ajawa
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
- adawa (Cunucunuma River dialect)
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
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ada:wa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “adāwa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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