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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Cariban languages compare Kari'na aware, Trió aware, Wayana awale, Akawaio aware, Pemon aware, and from non-Cariban languages compare Lokono jaware, Sranan Tongo awari, Yanomamö aware.
Pronunciation
Noun
yawade
- (Caura River dialect) the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 333
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 219, 388: “dawa:de 'opossum' […] dawa:de - opossum”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “dawāde”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “yaawade”, 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] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125