hayu
Chamorro edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw, from Proto-Austronesian *kaSiw (compare Indonesian kayu, Tagalog kahoy, Fijian kau).
Noun edit
hayu
- wood.
Kashaya edit
Noun edit
hayu
Old Javanese edit
Etymology edit
Probably borrowed from Sanskrit आयु (āyu, “living; lifetime”), thus doublet of ayu and ayuh. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
hayu
- good, goodness, rightness, virtuousness, well-being, welfare
- happiness, felicity
- beauty, loveliness
- Alternative spelling of ayu (“harmony”)
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Further reading edit
- "hayu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.