sawiya

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV sawiya
Brazilian standard sawiiya
New Tribes sawiiya

Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish savia (sap).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sawiya (possesed sawiyai)

  1. sap
  2. adornment, ornament
  3. saliva, spittle

References

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  • 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