sewoya

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	sewoya
Brazilian standard	sewooya
New Tribes	sewooya

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cebolla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [seβoːja]

Noun

sewoya

1. onion

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 237: “[sewo:ya] ~ [seβo:ya] 'onion' (from Sp. 'cebolla')”