kajwe

Mapudungun

Noun

kajwe (Raguileo spelling)

1. (botany) stem

Western Highland Chatino

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kahwe˨˩/

Noun

kajwe⁴⁵

1. coffee

Derived terms

• yka kajwe

References

• Pride, Leslie, Pride, Kitty (2010) Diccionario chatino de la zona alta: Panixtlahuaca, Oaxaca y otros pueblos‎^[1] (in Spanish), 2nd (electronic) edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 31