sawiya
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Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | sawiya |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | sawiiya |
| New Tribes | sawiiya |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish savia (“sap”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sawiya (possesed sawiyai)
References
[edit]- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 290, 398: “[sawi:ya] 'adornment' […] i-sa:wiyay > *sya:wiyay > sha:wiyay 'his saliva' […] sawiya -sa:wiya -i 'sap' […] sawi:ya - ornament, adornment”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “sawīya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021