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nuwa

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See also: ñuwa, Nüwa, and Nuwa

Achuar

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Noun

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nuwa

  1. woman

Äiwoo

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Etymology

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

Noun

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nuwa

  1. fruit

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Gbagyi

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Noun

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nuwa

  1. water

Further reading

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV nuwa
Brazilian standard nuwa
New Tribes nuwa

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nuwa (obligatorily possessed; possessed nuwadü)

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) brother

References

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  • 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