kawai

See also: Kawai

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kawai
Brazilian standard	kawai
New Tribes	cawai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kawaj]

Noun

kawai (possessed kawaichü)

1. tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kawai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 224, 228, 289, 386, 392:

  i-ka:way'chü > *kya:way'chü > cha:way'chü 'his tabacco^[sic]' […] *cha:waychü > *cha:waytchü > cha:way'chü 'his tabacco^[sic]' […] cha:way'chü 'his tobacco' ¶ ka:way'chü 'my tobacco' […] kawai -ka:wai' -chü 'tobacco' […] cha:wai'chü - his tobacco […] ka:wai - tobacco

• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawai”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31: “kawai”