wüüwa

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

  • wüwa (Caura River dialect)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [wɨːwa]

Noun

wüüwa

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) hourglass-shaped carrying basket woven by women

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wüwa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wü:wa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wɨ̄wa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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, pages 29–30, 71, 74, 133, 149, 220, 244, 245
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