ayawa

Galibi Carib

Alternative forms

  • ajawa

Noun

ayawa

  1. Protium guianense var. guianense
  2. Protium sagotianum
  3. Trattinnickia burserifolia
  4. Trattinnickia demerarae
  5. Trattinnickia cf. lawrancei
  6. Trattinnickia rhoifolia

References


Maquiritari

FWOTD – 5 September 2022

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ajaːwa]

Noun

ayawa (Ye'kwana dialect)

  1. a tree, Protium heptaphyllum, from which a sticky transparent liquid is extracted and used to make torches and bodypaint
  2. a torch, a light, typically made from this liquid wrapped in Oenocarpus bataua leaves
  3. the bodypaint made from this liquid
  4. bodypaint in general

References

  • Hall, Katherine (2007), adāwa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), ayawa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ada:wa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 63–65, 103, 144–146, 242
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