shiñawe

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	shiñawe
Brazilian standard	shinhaawe
New Tribes	shiñaawe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃiɲaːwe]

Noun

shiñawe

1. any of two particular kinds of toad, one that lives in ponds and one that lives on land

   Synonym: (in ritual chants) kuwanaweyu

References

• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[1], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 233, 340–341, 344, 352, 356, 360: “shinhaawe”
• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People‎^[2], Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, page 86