nuwa
Achuar edit
Noun edit
nuwa
Aiwoo edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Oceanic *na puaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.
Noun edit
nuwa
References edit
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
- Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.
Gbagyi edit
Noun edit
nuwa
Further reading edit
- Roger Blench, The Nupoid Languages of West-Central Nigeria: Overview and Comparative Wordlist (2013)
Ye'kwana edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nuwa (obligatorily possessed; possessed nuwadü)
- (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