Krio

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Yoruba ìyàwó.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yàwó

  1. bride

References

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  1. ^ Fyle, Clifford N., Jones, Eldred D. (1980) A Krio-English dictionary, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 400

Nupe

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Etymology

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Compare Yoruba ìyàwó.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yàwó (plural yàwózhì)

  1. bride

Sambali

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Noun

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yawò

  1. dart

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV yawo
Brazilian standard yawo
New Tribes yawo

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yawo

  1. first-person possessed form of wo

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yawo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yawo”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 69:yawo