kanwa

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French canevas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.va/

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• Rhymes: -anva
• Syllabification: kan‧wa

Noun

kanwa f

1. Aida cloth
2. groundwork

   Synonym: osnowa

3. (cartography, rare) contour map

Declension

Declension of kanwa

	singular	plural
nominative	kanwa	kanwy
genitive	kanwy	kanw
dative	kanwie	kanwom
accusative	kanwę	kanwy
instrumental	kanwą	kanwami
locative	kanwie	kanwach
vocative	kanwo	kanwy

Derived terms

(adjective):

• kanwowy

Further reading

• kanwa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kanwa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kanwa
Brazilian standard	kanwa
New Tribes	canwa
historical ad hoc	kungwa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaŋwa]

Noun

kanwa (possessed kanwai)

1. woven rectangular basket with a telescoping lid, commonly associated with shamans and used to store ritual objects

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kanwa”, 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, 290, 386, 391: “i-kanway > *kyanway > chanway 'his basket' […] kanwa -kanwa -i 'woven box (square basket)' […] chanwai - shaman's pouch or woven box […] ka:nwa - shaman's pouch, woven box”
• 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 77, 79, 99, 101–102, 105–106, 215–218, 235: “kungwa”
• 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, pages 39, 42: “kanwa”