yawo

Krio

Etymology

Borrowed from Yoruba ìyàwó.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jà.wó/

Noun

yàwó

  1. bride

References
  1. Clifford N. Fyle, Eldred D. Jones (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

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, 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
  • The template Template:R:mch:Monterrey does not use the parameter(s): 
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