See also: ñuwa, Nüwa, and Nuwa

Achuar edit

Noun edit

nuwa

  1. woman

Aiwoo edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Oceanic *na puaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

Noun edit

nuwa

  1. fruit

References edit

Gbagyi edit

Noun edit

nuwa

  1. water

Further reading edit

Ye'kwana edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

nuwa (obligatorily possessed; possessed nuwadü)

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) brother

References edit

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “-nuwā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021