# awo
## Fula
### Alternative forms

* awnordu (Maroua dialect)

### Noun

awo ngo (Garoua dialect)
* (Adamawa) a cotton or peanut market

### References

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

## Gothic
### Romanization

awō
* Romanization of 𐌰𐍅𐍉

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Tolaki [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈawo/
* Rhymes: -awo, -wo
* Hyphenation: awo

### Noun

awo (plural awo-awo)
* 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)
* their (third-person plural possessive adjective)

#### See also
## Old English
### Adverb

āwo
* always, ever

## Old Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /avɔ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /avɔ/

### Particle

awo
* here!
** 1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎, 22, 11:On otpowyedzal: awo gesm (adsum)[On otpowiedział: awo jeśm (adsum)]

#### Descendants

* Middle Polish: awo

### References

* ↑ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “awo, awoż”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 75
* 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: /ˈa.vɔ/

### Particle

awo
* (Middle Polish) here!
* (Middle Polish) expresses uncertainty; maybe, perhaps

### Conjunction

awo
* (Middle Polish) here, thus, so
* (Middle Polish) then, in that case

#### Derived terms

* awoż

### References

* ↑ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “awo, awoż”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 75

### 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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈawo/, [ˈa̠wʊ̞], [ˈɑ̟wɔ̝]

### Noun

awo
* great-grandparent, ancestor, forebear
** 1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎, 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, 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, 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 awoGlobe amaranth, globe amaranth, the way you grow is / how my country should thrive: just like my ancestors

#### Derived terms

* awodia

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.wo/

### Verb

awo
* (stative) to be long
* (stative) to be deep

#### Alternative forms

* awuo

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
* James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics

## Ye'kwana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aβo]

### Verb

awo
* (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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1

See Ede Idaca ao, Itsekiri ẹwo

#### Alternative forms

* ao

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ā.wō/

#### Noun

awo
* mystery, secret
    Synonyms: àṣírí, ohun ìkọ̀kọ̀
* (by extension) occult, cult, sect
* (by extension) Ifá, oracle
* (by extension) babalawo, a priest of Ifa or the divinity Ọ̀rúnmìlà
    Synonyms: babaláwo, onífá, ọlọ́rúnmìlà, aláwo, aṣawo
* (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: /ā.wó/

#### Noun

awó
* guinea fowl
    Synonym: ẹtù

### Etymology 3

See Ede Idaca àò

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.wō/

#### Noun

àwo
* dish, plate
    Synonym: abọ́