muwaju

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	muwaju
Brazilian standard	muwaaju
New Tribes	muwaaju

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muwaːhu]

Noun

muwaju (possessed muwajui)

1. loincloth made of colorful beads strung on cotton threads, traditionally worn and woven by women

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “muwaju”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 290, 394: “muwa:hu 'skirt' […] muwa:hu -mu:wa:hu -i 'skirt' […] muwa:hu - skirt”
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 40: “muwaaju”
• 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 240: “muwaju”