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Amis
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *(ka-)wiʀi.
Compare Malay kiri (“left”).
Adjective
kawili
- left (direction)
References
“Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021