wishu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wishu
Brazilian standard	wishu
New Tribes	wishu

Alternative forms

• wesu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wiʃu]

Noun

wishu (possessed wishui)

1. the annatto or achiote shrub, Bixa orellana, from which a red dye used for bodypaint is harvested
2. annatto, the dye or bodypaint obtained from this shrub

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wishu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wishu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “wishu”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• 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, page 64: “wishu”
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 242: “wishu”