kaaji

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kaaji
Brazilian standard	kaaji
New Tribes	caaji
historical ad hoc	kaahi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaːhi]

Noun

kaaji

1. ayahuasca, the vine Banisteriopsis caapi
2. ayahuasca, the hallucinogen prepared from this vine

References

• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “kaahi”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• 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 22, 58, 105, 226: “kaahi”
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 190: “caji”