sawiya

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV sawiya
Brazilian standard sawiiya
New Tribes sawiiya

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish savia (“sap”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sawiya (possesed sawiyai)

  1. sap
  2. adornment, ornament
  3. saliva, spittle

References

  • 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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