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, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 238: “cudawa”
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