uwi

uwi

1. alternative form of uvve

• Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Contribuciones a las lenguas y culturas de los Andes (2005), page 241: "uwi o uwe en esmeraldeño"
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes: úvve (citing Seler 1902, Jijón y Caamaño 1941), uwi

Inherited from Old Javanese huwi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qubi.

uwi

1. yam, various tubers

• "uwi" in W. J. S. Poerwadarminta, Bausastra Jawa. J. B. Wolters' Uitgevers-Maatschappij N. V. Groningen, Batavia, 1939

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qubi.

uwi

1. sweet potato

• (Rālik) iuwi

• (Rālik) IPA^(key): [i̯uːwi], (enunciated) [i̯u wi]

• (Ratak) IPA^(key): [wuːwi], (enunciated) [wu wi]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wwij/
• Bender phonemes: {wwiy}

uwi

1. the smell of cooking fish
2. deliciousness (of fish)

uwi

1. to be delicious (of fish)

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

• oui — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• owi — obsolete

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *ulíq (“return, restore”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uliq (“return home; return something; restore, repair; repeat; motion to and fro”). Compare Pangasinan oli, Kapampangan uli, Bikol Central uli, Calamian Tagbanwa ulik, Cebuano uli, Tboli ulek, Tausug uwi',Coastal Kadazan uhi and Javanese ꦲꦸꦭꦶꦃ (ulih). Doublet of uli.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔuˈiʔ/ [ʔʊˈɪʔ], (colloquial) /ʔuˈeʔ/ [ʔʊˈɛʔ]
  • Rhymes: -iʔ
• (now dialectal, Southern Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔuiʔ/ [ˈʔuː.ɪʔ]
  • Rhymes: -uiʔ
• Syllabification: u‧wi

uwî (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜏᜒ)

1. act of returning home (on one's hometown, province, country, etc.)
2. anything brought home by someone (especially from a trip)

   Synonym: pasalubong

• “uwi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018