abei

From Tokiharu Abe, Japanese ichthyologist.

abei (genitive)

1. (taxonomy) Used as a specific epithet in 37 accepted species names and 25 synonyms at the Catalog of Life; Abe's.

• abei at the Catalogue of Life 

abei

1. tree, wood

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

abei

1. dative plural of aba

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀabiqi, from Proto-Austronesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal”).

abei

1. evening

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• IPA^(key): /à.beí/

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àbeí (definite singular àbeí lá or àbeíá, plural àbeíwó, definite plural àbeíáwó)

1. fox

• Westermann, Dietrich Verfasser (1905) “abei”, in Wörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache [Dictionary of the Ewe language]‎^[1] (in German), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, section I, page 8
• Westermann, Dietrich Verfasser (1906) “abei”, in Wörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache [Dictionary of the Ewe language]‎^[2] (in German), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, section II, page 71

abei

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of abar

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈbe.i/

abei

1. a snake

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics (as abey)