jagwa
Kaiwá
editEtymology
editCognate with Guaraní jagua and Old Tupi îagûara.
Noun
editjagwa
- dog
- Che jagwa pytã ha nde jagwa hũ. ― My dog is red, and your dog is black.
- In compositions, a common name used to designate feline species
Further reading
edit- 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