heuay

Sundanese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Sundanese heuway, metathesis from the Earlier Sundanese form *heuyaw, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huyeʔab, from Proto-Austronesian *Suyeʔab.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɤ.ˈaj/

Verb

heuay

  1. to yawn
    Synonyms: angob, hamuay (dialectal, Banten)
    Saking horéamna, abdi rék heuay ogé horéam calangap.
    I’m so lazy, when I yawn, I’m too lazy to open my mouth.

References

  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Suyeʔab”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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