kuwanaweyu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kuwanaweyu
Brazilian standard	kuwaanaweeyu
New Tribes	cuwaanaweeyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuwaːnaweːju]

Noun

kuwanaweyu

1. (in ritual chants) Synonym of shiñawe (“a kind of toad”)

References

• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People‎^[1], Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, page 86: “kuwaanaweeyu”