wanadi

Perhaps named after the culture hero/demiurge Wanadi, as the bird is seen as one of his doubles (ökato), unless the culture hero is himself named after the bird. Compare Tariana wanari (“anhinga; epithet of God”), Marawá Baré wanari (“anhinga”), Barasana wanari (“anhinga”), Guanano Wanari (“ancestral culture hero of the Guanano”). For the connection between a mythological creator and a woodpecker, also compare Baniwa kówhee, Yucuna kuwajé.

• IPA^(key): [wanaːɾ̠i]

wanadi

1. one of several kinds of woodpecker:
   1. the lineated woodpecker, Dryocopus lineatus
   2. the crimson-crested woodpecker, Campephilus melanoleucos

• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “wanaadi”, 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 124
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wana:di”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “wanadi tonoro”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN