jagwa
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Kaiwá
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Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Guaraní jagua and Old Tupi îagûara.
Noun
[edit]jagwa
- dog
- Che jagwa pytã ha nde jagwa hũ. ― My dog is red, and your dog is black.
- In compositions, a common name used to designate feline species
Further reading
[edit]- Graciela Chamorro (2022) “jagwa”, in Dicionário kaiowá-português [Kaiwá–Portuguese Dictionary] (overall work in Portuguese), Belo Horizonte: Javali, →ISBN, pages 199–200, columns 1–2