wadiwadi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wadiwadi
Brazilian standard	wadiiwadi
New Tribes	wadiiwadi
historical ad hoc	wariwari

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [waɾ̠iːwaɾ̠i]

Noun

wadiwadi (possessed wadiwadiyü)

1. handheld fan twilled out of Ischnosiphon cane strips and used as a firefan and spatula

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wadiwadi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wadiwadi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wadi-wadi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 71–72, 81: “wariwari”
• 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 41: “wadiwadi”