Abbreviation ofEnglishYuwana withu anda interchanged.
yau
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forYuwana.
yau
- Rōmaji transcription ofやう
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*i-kahu, fromProto-Austronesian*kaSu. CompareIndonesianengkau.
yau
- you (singular)
- Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “yau”, inKamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page103
Cognate withBurmeseကျ(kya.).
- (Waingmaw)IPA(key): [jaw˧˧]
- (Mongko)IPA(key): [jaːw˧˩]
- Hyphenation:yau
yau
- (intransitive) toflow
2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 2:10 [Genesis 2:10]”, inJhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible][1], page 4:Gyid dalang gi Eden mooyau lho꞉ khyam꞉ ri jhuʼ nhang꞉.- One riverflows out of Eden and makes the garden wet.
- Qingxia Dai; Jie Li (2007),勒期语研究 [The study of the Leqi language], Beijing: Central Institute for Nationalities Publishing House,→ISBN, page318
- Mark Wannemacher (2011),A phonological overview of the Lacid language[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page26
yau
- moss
San Miguel el Grande Mixtec
[edit]FromProto-Mixtec*yawiʔ.
yau
- agave
- Dyk, Anne; Stoudt, Betty (1965),Vocabulario mixteco de San Miguel el Grande (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;12)[3] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: ElInstituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con laSecretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, published1973, pages52, 93
yau
- (anatomy)ear
FromProto-Hmong*ʔjuwᶜ(“small, young”),borrowed fromChinese幼(“young”).[1]
yau
- younger (than),smaller (than),lesser (than)
- Nws yau koj. ―He is younger than you.
yau
- theyounger
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979),White Hmong — English Dictionary[4], SEAP Publications,→ISBN.
- ^Ratliff, Martha (2010),Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics,→ISBN, page82; 285..
FromProto-Mixtec*yáwì.
yau
- hole
- cave
FromProto-Mixtec*yawiʔ.
yau
- maguey
- Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012),Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;46)[5] (in Spanish), third edition,Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page91
