awo

See also: Awo, awó, awö, and awọ

Fula

Alternative forms

• awnordu (Maroua dialect)

Noun

awo ngo (Garoua dialect)

1. (Adamawa) a cotton or peanut market

References

• Tourneux, Henry, Daïrou, Yaya (1999) Vocabulaire peul du monde rural : Maroua-Garoua (Cameroun)‎^[1] (in French), retrieved 7 May 2023

Gothic

Romanization

awō

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍅𐍉

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Tolaki [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈawo/
• Rhymes: -awo, -wo
• Hyphenation: awo

Noun

awo (plural awo-awo, first-person possessive awoku, second-person possessive awomu, third-person possessive awonya)

1. stepson, stepdaughter

Further reading

• “awo” 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.

Maore Comorian

Alternative forms

• -ao

Adjective

-awo (declinable)

1. their (third-person plural possessive adjective)

See also

Maore Comorian possessive adjectives

			singular	plural
1st person			-angu	-atru
2nd person			-aho	-anyu
3rd person			-ahe	-awo

Old English

Adverb

āwo

1. always, ever

Old Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of a +‎ wo. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /avɔ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /avɔ/

Particle

awo

1. here!
   • 1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎^[2], 22, 11:

     On otpowyedzal: awo gesm (adsum)

     [On otpowiedział: awo jeśm (adsum)]

Descendants

• Middle Polish: awo

References

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “awo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish awo. By surface analysis, univerbation of a +‎ wo.

Pronunciation

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vɔ/

Particle

awo

1. (Middle Polish) here!
2. (Middle Polish) expresses uncertainty; maybe, perhaps

Conjunction

awo

1. (Middle Polish) here, thus, so
2. (Middle Polish) then, in that case

Derived terms

particle

• awoż

 

Further reading

• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “awo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “awo”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “awo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• awo in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Sranan Tongo

Alternative forms

• afo

Noun

awo

1. great-grandparent, ancestor, forebear
   • 1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎^[3], archived from the original on 8 February 2023:

     mi pikin kali mi grangmamma "hem awò" : so srefi a kali mi grangtatta "hem awò" tu.

     My child calls my grandmother "their great-grandparent"; likewise, they call my grandfather "their great-grandparent", too.

   • c. 1885, Johannes King, “Skrekiboekoe”, in Jan Voorhoeve, Ursy M. Lichtveld, editors, Suriname: Spiegel der vaderlandse kooplieden‎^[4], Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, published 1980, →ISBN, pages 108, 110:

     En ala dem ouloetem gran avoo vo wi ben de Afrikan ningre na ningre kondre. Na janda dem ouroetem bakra go bai dem avoo vo wi potti na ini sipi tjari koti habra da bigi soutoe watra, en dem tjari dem kom doro dia na foto Paramaribo.

     [Èn ala den owruten granawo fu wi ben de Afrikan nengre na nengrekondre. Na yanda den owruten bakra go bai den awo fu wi poti na ini sipi tyari koti abra a bigi sowtu watra èn den tyari den kon doro dya na foto Paramaribo]

     And all our forefathers of the olden days were African negroes from negro-country. It was over there that the whites of old went and bought our forefathers and put them in ships to take them across the big salt water, and brought them here to the city of Paramaribo.

   • 1994, Albert Helman, Adyosi / Afscheid‎^[5], Nijmegen: Stichting Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, page 64:

     Stanfaste, Stanfaste, na fas' fa y' e gro / mi kondre mu libi: net' lek' mi awo

     Globe amaranth, globe amaranth, the way you grow is / how my country should thrive: just like my ancestors

Derived terms

• awodia

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.wo/

Verb

awo

1. (stative) to be long
2. (stative) to be deep

Conjugation

Conjugation of awo (stative verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tiawo	miawo	aawo
2nd person		niawo	fiawo
3rd person	inanimate	iawo	diawo
	animate	maawo
imperative		—, awo	—, awo

Alternative forms

• awuo

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics
• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[7], Pacific linguistics

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	awo
Brazilian standard	awo
New Tribes	awo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aβo]

Verb

awo

1. (intransitive) to swell, to inflate

Derived terms

• awonñö'ka

 

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 315
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-awō-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[8], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Yoruba

Etymology 1

See Ede Idaca ao, Itsekiri ẹwo

Alternative forms

• ao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ā.wō/

Noun

awo

1. mystery, secret

   Synonyms: àṣírí, ohun ìkọ̀kọ̀

2. (by extension) occult, cult, sect
3. (by extension) Ifá, oracle
4. (by extension) babalawo, a priest of Ifa or the divinity Ọ̀rúnmìlà

   Synonyms: babaláwo, onífá, ọlọ́rúnmìlà, aláwo, aṣawo

5. (by extension) a respected or elder member of a guild or society of artists

Derived terms

• aláwo (“babalawo”)
• Awódìran (“Yoruba name, meaning "Ifa worship has become hereditary"”)
• Awólọ́wọ̀ (“Yoruba name, The oracle has respect”)
• babaláwo (“babalawo”)
• Olúwo (“chieftaincy title of an Ifa priest”)

 

Etymology 2

Cognate with Ede Idaca aó, Igala áwó

Alternative forms

• aó
• aghó

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ā.wó/

Noun

awó

1. guinea fowl

   Synonym: ẹtù

Etymology 3

See Ede Idaca àò

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à.wō/

Noun

àwo

1. dish, plate

   Synonym: abọ́