dawade

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): [dawaːɾ̠e]

Noun

dawade

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

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 333
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “dawa:de”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “dawāde”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, 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]‎ (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125
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