yawo

Krio

Etymology

From Yoruba ìyàwó.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jà.wó/

Noun

yàwó

  1. bride

References

  1. ^ Fyle, Clifford N., Jones, Eldred D. (1980) A Krio-English dictionary, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 400

Nupe

Etymology

Compare Yoruba ìyàwó.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jà.wó/

Noun

yàwó (plural yàwózhì)

  1. bride

Sambali

Noun

yawò

  1. dart

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV yawo
Brazilian standard yawo
New Tribes yawo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɟaβo]

Noun

yawo

  1. first-person possessed form of wo

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yawo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yawo”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 69: “yawo”
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