wadhada

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wadhada
Brazilian standard	wadhaada
New Tribes	wadhaada

Alternative forms

• *wayada (Caura River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [waðaːɾ̠a]

Noun

wadhada

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) a kind of large tortoise

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 218, 401: “[wada:da] ~ [waða:da] 'giant tortoise' […] wada:da - large tortoise”