jagwa

Kaiwá

jagwa

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní jagua and Old Tupi îagûara.

Noun

jagwa

1. dog

   Che jagwa pytã ha nde jagwa hũ. ― My dog is red, and your dog is black.

2. In compositions, a common name used to designate feline species

Further reading

• Graciela Chamorro (2022) “jagwa”, in Dicionário kaiowá-português [Kaiwá–Portuguese Dictionary] (overall work in Portuguese), Belo Horizonte: Javali, →ISBN, pages 199–200, columns 1–2