kudawa

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuɾ̠aːwa]

Noun

kudawa (possessed kudawai)

1. a plant, Bromelia pinguin
2. curare, a poison made from Strychnos toxifera

   Synonym: kumadawa

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kuda:wa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• 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 238: “cudawa”