wadiwadi

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Variant orthographies
ALIV wadiwadi
Brazilian standard wadiiwadi
New Tribes wadiiwadi
historical ad hoc wariwari

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

wadiwadi (possessed wadiwadiyü)

  1. handheld fan twilled out of Ischnosiphon cane strips and used as a firefan and spatula

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wadiwadi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wadiwadi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wadi-wadi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 71–72, 81:wariwari
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 41:wadiwadi