Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV wa'shadi
Brazilian standard wa'shadi
New Tribes wa'shadi
historical ad hoc wachedi

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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wa'shadi

  1. the South American tapir, Tapirus terrestris

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wa'shadi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “wasadi”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎[2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wa'shadi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “tapir (wachedi)”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
  • 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 36:washadi