shiñawe

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV shiñawe
Brazilian standard shinhaawe
New Tribes shiñaawe

Pronunciation

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Noun

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shiñawe

  1. any of two particular kinds of toad, one that lives in ponds and one that lives on land
    Synonym: (in ritual chants) kuwanaweyu

References

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  • Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris[1], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 233, 340–341, 344, 352, 356, 360:shinhaawe
  • Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People[2], Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, page 86