fuawe
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Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Thought by Madan to be from -fuawa (“to be beat”), but Klein-Arendt shows it is from -fua jiwe (“beat a stone”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fuawe (n class, plural fuawe)
References
[edit]- Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000) “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 7, pages 153–204