öwansi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	öwansi
Brazilian standard	äwansi
New Tribes	äwansi

Alternative forms

• öwainshi (Cunucunuma River dialect)
• öwanshi (Brazil)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əwansi]

Noun

öwansi (possessed öwansiñü or ewansiñü)

1. (Caura River dialect) food, meal

Derived terms

• ewansinchö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öwansi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 114
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “äwanshi”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ö:wainshi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 289, 291
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “əwainši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021