ayawa
Galibi Carib
Alternative forms
- ajawa
Noun
ayawa
References
- Charlotte I.E.A. van ’t Klooster; Jan C. Lindeman; Marion J. Jansen-Jacobs (2003) Index of vernacular plant names of Suriname (BLUMEA Supplement), issue 15, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden branch, →ISBN, page 167
Maquiritari
FWOTD – 5 September 2022
Alternative forms
- (De'kwana) adawa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ajaːwa]
Noun
ayawa (Ye'kwana dialect)
- a tree, Protium heptaphyllum, from which a sticky transparent liquid is extracted and used to make torches and bodypaint
- a torch, a light, typically made from this liquid wrapped in Oenocarpus bataua leaves
- the bodypaint made from this liquid
- 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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