heuay

Sundanese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Sundanese heuway, metathesis from the Earlier Sundanese form *heuyaw, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huyəʔab, from Proto-Austronesian *Suyəʔab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɤ.ˈaj/

Verb

heuay (Sundanese spelling ᮠᮨᮅᮃᮚ᮪)

1. to yawn

   Synonyms: angob, hamuay (dialectal, Banten)

   Saking horéamna, abdi rék heuay ogé horéam calangap.

   I’m so lazy, when I yawn, I’m too lazy to open my mouth.

References

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Suyeʔab”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI