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Krio
Etymology
Borrowed from Yoruba ìyàwó.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
yàwó
- bride
References
Nupe
Etymology
Compare Yoruba ìyàwó.
Pronunciation
Noun
yàwó (plural yàwózhì)
- bride
Sambali
Noun
yawò
- dart
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
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yawo
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| Brazilian standard
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yawo
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| New Tribes
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yawo
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Pronunciation
Noun
yawo
- first-person possessed form of wo
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yawo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “yawo”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, 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”