yawade

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	yawade
Brazilian standard	yawaade
New Tribes	yawaade

Alternative forms

• dhawade, dawade (Cunucunuma River dialect)

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): [ɟawaːɾ̠e]

Noun

yawade

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

References

• 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