wa'shadi

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• washadi
• wasadi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [waʔʃaɾ̠i]

Noun

wa'shadi

1. the South American tapir, Tapirus terrestris

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wa'shadi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “wasadi”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wa'shadi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “tapir (wachedi)”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• 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 36: “washadi”