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

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, line 6:

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

     And away went her eggs, with the car overset.

• 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