yawe

From Spanish llave (“key”), from Latin clāvis (“key”).

yawe

1. key

yawe

1. ji-ma class subject inflected plural subjunctive affirmative of -wa

• yaui, yavi, yavy – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
• yawi

Early borrowing from Spanish llave (“key”), from Latin clāvis (“key”). Doublet of liyabe.

• Hyphenation: ya‧we
• IPA^(key): /ˈjawe/, [ˈja.wɛ]

yawe (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜏᜒ)

1. key

   Synonyms: susi, liyabe

• “yawe”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 397: “Llaue) [Yavi] (pp) cualquiera queſea”
  • page 613: “Zerrar) [Yavi] (pp) C. con llaue”

• jawe

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

yàwè

1. water

• Topics in Chadic linguistics 3, volume 3 (2007)