ayawa

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Kari'na

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Noun

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ayawa

  1. Alternative form of ajawa

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ayawa
Brazilian standard ayaawa
New Tribes ayaawa

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ayawa (Caura River dialect)

  1. a tree, Protium heptaphyllum, from which a sticky transparent liquid is extracted and used to make torches and bodypaint
  2. a torch, a light, typically made from this liquid wrapped in Oenocarpus bataua leaves
  3. the bodypaint made from this liquid
  4. bodypaint in general

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ayawa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “adhaawa”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 218, 385:[ada:wa] ~ [aða:wa] 'flare' [] ada:wa - light, torch
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “adāwa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], 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 63–65, 103, 144–146, 242:ayawa