nuwa

See also: ñuwa, Nüwa, and Nuwa

Achuar

Noun

nuwa

1. woman

Äiwoo

Etymology

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

Noun

nuwa

1. fruit

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 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

Noun

nuwa

1. water

Further reading

• Roger Blench, The Nupoid Languages of West-Central Nigeria: Overview and Comparative Wordlist (2013)

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	nuwa
Brazilian standard	nuwa
New Tribes	nuwa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nuwa]

Noun

nuwa (obligatorily possessed; possessed nuwadü)

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) brother

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 289: “nuwa:du 'brother' […] ----- -nuwa: -dü 'brother'”
• 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