kawai

See also: Kawai

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV kawai
Brazilian standard kawai
New Tribes cawai

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kawaj]

Noun

kawai (possessed kawaichü)

  1. tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kawai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 224, 228, 289, 386, 392:
    i-ka:way'chü > *kya:way'chü > cha:way'chü 'his tabacco[sic]' […] *cha:waychü > *cha:waytchü > cha:way'chü 'his tabacco[sic]' […] cha:way'chü 'his tobacco' ¶ ka:way'chü 'my tobacco' […] kawai -ka:wai' -chü 'tobacco' […] cha:wai'chü - his tobacco […] ka:wai - tobacco
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawai”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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 31: “kawai”
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