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Achuar
Noun
nuwa
- woman
Aiwoo
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *na puaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.
Noun
nuwa
- fruit
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
- Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.
Gbagyi
Noun
nuwa
- water
Further reading
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Noun
nuwa (obligatorily possessed; possessed nuwadü)
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) brother
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-nuwā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021