sawiya

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	sawiya
Brazilian standard	sawiiya
New Tribes	sawiiya

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish savia (“sap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saviːja]

Noun

sawiya (possesed sawiyai)

1. sap
2. adornment, ornament
3. saliva, spittle

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 290, 398: “[sawi:ya] 'adornment' […] i-sa:wiyay > *sya:wiyay > sha:wiyay 'his saliva' […] sawiya -sa:wiya -i 'sap' […] sawi:ya - ornament, adornment”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “sawīya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021