gawai
Iban
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gaway (“religious feast; festivity”). Doublet of gawa.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgawai
References
editIndonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Malay gawai from Old Javanese gawe, gaway (“work, task, occupation; work, product; feast, celebration; use, purpose”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gaway (“religious feast; festivity”), either learned from Javanese ꦒꦮꦺ (gawé, “work, use”) or via precursor Malay dialects.
- The sense “gadget” is a semantic loan from English gadget.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgawai (plural gawai-gawai, first-person possessive gawaiku, second-person possessive gawaimu, third-person possessive gawainya)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “gawai” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
editEtymology
editFrom Old Javanese gaway (“work, task, occupation; work, product; feast, celebration; use, purpose”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gaway (“religious feast; festivity”). Compare with Javanese ꦒꦮꦺ (gawé, “work, use”), Iban gawa plus Tagalog gaway (“witchcraft”) and gawa (“work”).
- Sense “gadget” is a semantic loan from English gadget via Indonesian.
- Sense of celebration influenced by dialect contact with Iban gawai in Borneo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgawai (Jawi spelling ݢاواي, plural gawai-gawai, informal 1st possessive gawaiku, 2nd possessive gawaimu, 3rd possessive gawainya)
- (archaic) work, job, task
- (Riau) gadget, tool, equipment.
- (Sarawak) celebration, particularly of the Iban harvest festival.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ݢاوي gawei”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 100
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ݢاوي gawai”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 96
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “gawai”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 332
Further reading
edit- “gawai” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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