awo

• awnordu (Maroua dialect)

awo ngo (Garoua dialect)

1. (Adamawa) a cotton or peanut market

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

awō

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍅𐍉

Borrowed from Tolaki [Term?].

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

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

1. stepson, stepdaughter

• “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.

• -ao

-awo (declinable)

1. their (third-person plural possessive adjective)

āwo

1. always, ever

Univerbation of a +‎ wo.^[1] First attested in the 15th century.

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

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)]

• Middle Polish: awo

• 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

Inherited from Old Polish awo. By surface analysis, univerbation of a +‎ wo.^[1]

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vɔ/

awo

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

awo

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

• 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

• afo

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

• awodia

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.wo/

awo

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

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

• awuo

• 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

Variant orthographies

ALIV	awo
Brazilian standard	awo
New Tribes	awo

• IPA^(key): [aβo]

awo

1. (intransitive) to swell, to inflate

• 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

See Ede Idaca ao, Itsekiri ẹwo

• ao

• IPA^(key): /ā.wō/

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

Cognate with Ede Idaca aó, Igala áwó

• aó
• aghó

• IPA^(key): /ā.wó/

awó

1. guinea fowl

   Synonym: ẹtù

See Ede Idaca àò

• IPA^(key): /à.wō/

àwo

1. dish, plate

   Synonym: abọ́