ijáwɨɨmɨ‘irapay’, a small palm with slender stalks about 1.25m in height [...]
Part of Speech
noun
Irregular Plural
ijáwɨɨmɨya
Root
ijáwɨɨmɨ
Variant Form(s)
personal variant (ELY): ijawɨɨ́taamɨ
‘irapay’, a small palm with slender stalks about 1.25m in height and slender leaves that emerge in a pair from a single stalk; grows well in sandy soils with considerable leaf litter (<sásakɨ>) and in moist areas near the banks of creeks. Harvested in significant quantities to be woven into <iitaari> (‘crisnejas’), both for the construction of roofs in the community and for sale in Iquitos; in the 1990s and 2000s, the sale of ‘crisnejas’ was the principal source of income in the community