wo'mo ansai

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV wo'mo ansai
Brazilian standard wo'mo ansai
New Tribes wo'mo ansai

Etymology

From wo'mo (necklace) +‎ ansai (possessed form of ansa (necklace)), thus literally ‘ansa-necklace of the wo’mo necklace’.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [βoʔmo ansaj]

Noun

wo'mo ansai

  1. a kind of traditional necklace

References

  • 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 46:womo ansai