yawade

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV yawade
Brazilian standard yawaade
New Tribes yawaade

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Cariban languages compare Kari'na aware, Trió aware, Wayana awale, Akawaio aware, Pemon aware, and from non-Cariban languages compare Lokono jaware, Sranan Tongo awari, Yanomamö aware.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yawade

  1. (Caura River dialect) the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 333
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 219, 388:dawa:de 'opossum' [] dawa:de - opossum
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “dawāde”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “yaawade”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎[3] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125