yawo

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Krio[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Yoruba ìyàwó.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

yàwó

  1. bride

References[edit]

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

Nupe[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Yoruba ìyàwó.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

yàwó (plural yàwózhì)

  1. bride

Sambali[edit]

Noun[edit]

yawò

  1. dart

Ye'kwana[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

yawo

  1. first-person possessed form of wo

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yawo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[2], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yawo”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], 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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