sawiya

See also: sawiyá

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV sawiya
Brazilian standard sawiiya
New Tribes sawiiya

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish savia (“sap”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [saviːja]

Noun

sawiya (possessed 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[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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