awi

awi

1. water

• Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method (2004, →ISBN

awi

1. (Banawá) tapir

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

awi

1. kraal

• P. Logiro and J. Ilukori. 2007. A Simplified Ngakarimojong-English – English-Ngakarimojong Dictionary. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.

From Proto-Polynesian *afi, from Proto-Oceanic *api, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hapuy, from Proto-Austronesian *Sapuy (“fire”).

awi

1. fire

   Tutu te awi kē mumula nā kainga.

   Light the fire to burn up the rubbish.

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

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awi (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵡⵉ)

1. (transitive) to take
2. (transitive) to marry
3. (transitive) to confiscate, to usurp
4. (intransitive, construed with di) to attack
5. (transitive, construed with di) to take an interest in, to rely on
6. (transitive, affixed with d) to bring
7. (transitive, affixed with d) to earn, to gain, to obtain
8. (transitive, affixed with d) to buy, to purchase
9. (transitive, affixed with d) to resemble
10. (transitive, affixed with d) to seem, to appear

Using the clitic -d (“hither”) changes the meaning of the verb. It directs the action towards the place where the speaker is at that moment.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• away (“flooding”)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis. Compare Sanskrit अवि (avi).

awi (oblique plural)

1. ewes

awi

1. stone

• aiya

awi

1. Alternative form of awye
   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 6:

     An awi gome her egges wi a wheel an car taape,

     And away went her eggs, with the car overset.

   • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 3:

     Thaay paaced awi up to tha Cross o Shad

     They paced away up to the Cross of the Shad,

   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 16:

     An pranced awi to jigges an to reels.

     And pranced away to jigs and reels.

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129