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awo

See also: Awo, awó, awö, and awọ

Fula

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Noun

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awo ngo (Garoua dialect)

  1. (Adamawa) a cotton or peanut market

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  • Tourneux, Henry, Daïrou, Yaya (1999) Vocabulaire peul du monde rural : Maroua-Garoua (Cameroun)‎[1] (in French), retrieved 7 May 2023

Gothic

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Romanization

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awō

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍅𐍉

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Tolaki [Term?].

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Noun

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awo (plural awo-awo, first-person possessive awoku, second-person possessive awomu, third-person possessive awonya)

  1. stepson, stepdaughter

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Maore Comorian

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Adjective

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-awo (declinable)

  1. their (third-person plural possessive adjective)

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Maore Comorian possessive adjectives
singular plural
1st person -angu -atru
2nd person -aho -anyu
3rd person -ahe -awo

Old English

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Adverb

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āwo

  1. always, ever

Old Polish

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Etymology

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Univerbation of a +‎ wo.[1] First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /avɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /avɔ/

Particle

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awo

  1. here!

Descendants

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  • Middle Polish: awo

References

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  1. ^ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “awo, awoż”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 75
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “awo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish awo. By surface analysis, univerbation of a +‎ wo.[1]

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Particle

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awo

  1. (Middle Polish) here!
  2. (Middle Polish) expresses uncertainty; maybe, perhaps

Conjunction

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awo

  1. (Middle Polish) here, thus, so
  2. (Middle Polish) then, in that case

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particle

References

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  1. ^ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “awo, awoż”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 75

Further reading

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  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “awo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “awo”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “awo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • awo in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Sranan Tongo

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Noun

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awo

  1. great-grandparent, ancestor, forebear
    • 1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎[3], archived from the original on 8 February 2023:
      mi pikin kali mi grangmamma "hem awò" : so srefi a kali mi grangtatta "hem awò" tu.
      My child calls my grandmother "their great-grandparent"; likewise, they call my grandfather "their great-grandparent", too.
    • c. 1885, Johannes King, “Skrekiboekoe”, in Jan Voorhoeve, Ursy M. Lichtveld, editors, Suriname: Spiegel der vaderlandse kooplieden‎[4], Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, published 1980, →ISBN, pages 108, 110:
      En ala dem ouloetem gran avoo vo wi ben de Afrikan ningre na ningre kondre. Na janda dem ouroetem bakra go bai dem avoo vo wi potti na ini sipi tjari koti habra da bigi soutoe watra, en dem tjari dem kom doro dia na foto Paramaribo.
      [Èn ala den owruten granawo fu wi ben de Afrikan nengre na nengrekondre. Na yanda den owruten bakra go bai den awo fu wi poti na ini sipi tyari koti abra a bigi sowtu watra èn den tyari den kon doro dya na foto Paramaribo]
      And all our forefathers of the olden days were African negroes from negro-country. It was over there that the whites of old went and bought our forefathers and put them in ships to take them across the big salt water, and brought them here to the city of Paramaribo.
    • 1994, Albert Helman, Adyosi / Afscheid‎[5], Nijmegen: Stichting Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, page 64:
      Stanfaste, Stanfaste, na fas' fa y' e gro / mi kondre mu libi: net' lek' mi awo
      Globe amaranth, globe amaranth, the way you grow is / how my country should thrive: just like my ancestors

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West Makian

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Verb

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awo

  1. (stative) to be long
  2. (stative) to be deep

Conjugation

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Conjugation of awo (stative verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tiawo miawo aawo
2nd person niawo fiawo
3rd person inanimate iawo diawo
animate maawo
imperative —, awo —, awo

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References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[6], Pacific linguistics
  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎[7], Pacific linguistics

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV awo
Brazilian standard awo
New Tribes awo

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awo

  1. (intransitive) to swell, to inflate

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References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 315
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-awō-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[8], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Yoruba

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Etymology 1

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See Ede Idaca ao, Itsekiri ẹwo

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awo

  1. mystery, secret
    Synonyms: àṣírí, ohun ìkọ̀kọ̀
  2. (by extension) occult, cult, sect
  3. (by extension) Ifá, oracle
  4. (by extension) babalawo, a priest of Ifa or the divinity Ọ̀rúnmìlà
    Synonyms: babaláwo, onífá, ọlọ́rúnmìlà, aláwo, aṣawo
  5. (by extension) a respected or elder member of a guild or society of artists
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Etymology 2

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Cognate with Ede Idaca aó, Igala áwó

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awó

  1. guinea fowl
    Synonym: ẹtù

Etymology 3

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See Ede Idaca àò

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àwo

  1. dish, plate
    Synonym: abọ́
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