Ye'kwana edit

Variant orthographies
ALIV kudawa
Brazilian standard kudaawa
New Tribes cudaawa

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

kudawa (possessed kudawai)

  1. a plant, Bromelia pinguin
  2. a fiber rope made from this plant, used as a ritual whip
  3. curare, a poison made from Strychnos toxifera
    Synonym: kumadawa

References edit

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kuda:wa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 238:cudawa
  • Briceño, Luis García (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths[2], London: London School of Economics and Political Science, page 121:cudawa