waya

See also: wāyā- and Waya

Aleut

Pronunciation

(Western) IPA^(key): /ˈwaja/

Adverb

waya (Western)

right here
now

References

2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From English wire.

Noun

waya

wire

Buli (Indonesia)

Noun

waya

water

References

G. Maan, Proeve van een Bulische spraakkunst (1951) (as waja)

Choctaw

Etymology

Compare Alabama aɬi (“to yield, to produce; fruit, berry, kernel”) hayaɬi (“peanut”); Chickasaw hayi (“walnut”), nawa (“to produce, to bear”); Creek háyetv (“to make, to produce”); Koasati athi (“to bear fruit”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

waya

(agriculture, of a plant or tuber) To yield, to produce, to fruit, to bear.

Derived terms

na waya

Noun

waya

A peanut.

Derived terms

References

“waya”, in The Choctaw Dictionary, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Lokono

Noun

waya

clay

References

de Goeje, C. H. (1928), The Arawak Language of Guiana‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 257

Ma'ya

Noun

waya

water

References

transnewguinea.org, citing Clemens Voorhoeve (1975), Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, →DOI

Swahili

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya): (file)

Etymology 1

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

waya

Wikipedia ^sw

Borrowed from English wire.^[1]

Noun

waya class IX (plural nyaya class X)

wire (thin thread of metal)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic وِعَاء (wiʕāʔ).

Noun

waya class IX (plural nyaya class X)

earthen baking dish

References

^ Petzell, Malin (2005), “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎^[1], volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 November 2009, page 92 of 85-107: “Waya ‘wire’ (class 14) is another case of morpheme substitution where the plural is nyaya ‘wires’ (class 10).”

Taba

Noun

waya

water

References

C. L. Voorhoeve, The Makian Languages and Their Neighbours (1982) (as waya)
Yuiti Wada, Correspondance of Consonants in North Halmahera Languages (1980) (as woya)

Yámana

Noun

waya

bay

Yoruba

Etymology

Borrowed from English wire.

Noun

wáyà

wire, electrical cable

Derived terms

[1] Petzell, Malin (2005), “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎^[1], volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 November 2009, page 92 of 85-107: “Waya ‘wire’ (class 14) is another case of morpheme substitution where the plural is nyaya ‘wires’ (class 10).”

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