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A guaíza (pronounced, also guayza, goeiza or waisa) is the word for the spirit of a living person in an extinct Arawakan language of the indigenous people of the Pre-Columbian Greater Antilles.

Possible etymology
Guaíza could possibly consist of the Arawakan morphemes "wa" and "-isi(ba)", the first connotating a first person plural possessive ("our"), while the morpheme "-isi" is translatable as "protrusion, frontier." These two morphemes taken together are generally thought to translate as "our face."