Bahuana

Family
Arawakan
Region
South America
ISO 639-3
xir
Location
2.70°, -62.54°
Notes
Features
Flora Fauna Vocabulary
Data Sources
Ramirez, Henri. 1992. Le Bahuana, une nouvelle langue de la famille arawak. Chantiers Amerindia. Supplement 1 au n° 17 d'Amerindia, Paris.


Flora Fauna Vocabulary (1)
English Spanish Portuguese Semantic Field Part of Speech Linnean Name Orthographic Form Phonemicized Form Gloss as in Source Etymology Code Proto-Form Proto-Language Loan Source Etymology Notes Wanderwort Status Etyma Set Range of Term Word Structure Word Structure Notes Classifier Classifier Notes Hypernym Source Association with Social Categories Ritual/Mythologically Significant Ritual Notes Food Source Food Notes Medicinal Medicinal Notes How Collected Who Collects How Prepared Psychotropic Psychotropic Notes Traded Trade Notes Distribution Habitat Dangerous Ethnobiology Notes Species Notes General Notes
peach palm, pejibaye palm chontaduro (Col, Ecuador); pipire (Col); pijuayo (Peru), pijiguao (Ven); tembe (Bol) pupunha flora-fauna Bactris gasipaes ɸiɸici ɸiɸici Giulielma speciosa Ramirez 1992:117 'Wapishana subgroup has r > c/ʃ, likely source of TG loan