wüwa

See also: wuwa

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wüwa
Brazilian standard	wöwa
New Tribes	wöwa

Alternative forms

• wüüwa (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wɨwa]

Noun

wüwa

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

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wüwa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], 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^[2], 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
• 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 41–44: “wü’wa”