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fuawe

Swahili edit

Etymology edit

Thought by Madan to be from -fuawa (“to be beat”), but Klein-Arendt shows it is from -fua jiwe (“beat a stone”).

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun edit

fuawe (n class, plural fuawe)

  1. anvil

References edit

  • Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000) “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum‎[1], volume 7, pages 153–204
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