tamɨ́ɨna amákɨɨri ‘‘tangarana’’ style of weaving <iitaari> (‘crisneja’ [...]

Part of Speech	noun
Irregular Plural	tamɨ́ɨna amákɨɨriwa
Root	tamɨ́ɨna amákɨɨri

• • ‘‘tangarana’’ style of weaving <iitaari> (‘crisneja’ thatch panels), in which the <ijáwɨɨmɨ> (‘irapay’) palm palm frond stems that wrap around the palm wood lath are bunched together in groups of eight, with large gaps between them; the name of this style comes from this pattern resembling the spaced segments of the trunk of the <tamɨ́ɨna>, ‘tangarana’ tree

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