auwa

Nottoway

Alternative forms

  • owan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-North Iroquoian *aːwẽɁ, ultimately from Proto-Iroquoian *awẽɁ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (reconstructed) /ˈaːwẽʔ/

Noun

auwa

  1. water

References

  • Thomas Jefferson with Edith Turner (4 March 1820), Letter to Peter DuPonceau‎[1], American Philosophical Society, Edy Turner’s Vocabulary of the Nottoway Language
  • Blair A. Rudes (1981), “A Sketch of the Nottoway Language from a Historical-Comparative Perspective”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 47, number 1, page 46
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