gawe

Javanese

Romanization

gawe

  1. nonstandard spelling of gawé, romanization of ꦒꦮꦺ

Walloon

Etymology

Inherited from Old French goe~joe (“cheek”), from Vulgar Latin *ga(v)ota. Compare French joue.

The etymological sense survives in the expression fé aler s' gawe (“to move one's mouth”) and the derivatives gawî (“to devour”)~djawyî (“to chat”) and badjawe~badjowe (“jowl”, and various figurative senses). The dialectal variation between conservative /ɡ/ and palatalized /d͡ʒ/ reflects the fact that Wallonia straddles the Joret line.

Noun

gawe f

  1. Jew's harp

References

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