ao

ao (not comparable)

1. Initialism of amongst/among/and others.

Borrowed from Japanese あお (ao).

ao (uncountable)

1. grue (color)

• OA

Borrowed from Tikopia ao.

ao

1. day (period of 24 hours)
2. day (period between sunrise and sunset)

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

ao

1. Alternative form of aoa

• aotsi

From Proto-Bahnaric *ʔa:w, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔaawʔ (“upper garment”). Cognates include Vietnamese áo, Khmer អាវ (aau), Muong ảo.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaːw/

ao

1. shirt

• IPA^(key): /aɔ̯/

ao

1. hair

Compare Yuri ato (“father”).

ao

1. father

• Seifart and Echeverri, Evidence for the Identification of Carabayo, the Language of an Uncontacted People of the Colombian Amazon, as Belonging to the Tikuna–Yurí Linguistic Family, PLoS ONE 9(4) (2014)

• ó

From contraction of preposition a (“to, towards”) + masculine definite article o (“the”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔ/

ao m (feminine á, masculine plural aos, feminine plural ás)

1. Contraction of a o (“to the, towards the”).

ao

1. clothes

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalejaw (compare Tagalog araw).

ao

1. light
2. daylight
3. day
4. dawn

ao

1. world
2. earth

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Maori ao).

ao

1. cloud

ao

1. Rōmaji transcription of あお

ao

1. (intransitive) go in, enter

ao

1. Nonstandard spelling of āo.
2. Nonstandard spelling of áo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of ǎo.
4. Nonstandard spelling of ào.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

-ao (declinable)

1. Alternative form of -awo (“their”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalejaw (compare Tagalog araw).

ao

1. daytime

ao

1. world

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Hawaiian ao).

ao

1. cloud

• “ao” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
• Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 14-5

ao

1. clothing, clothes

ao

1. water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

• Hyphenation: ao

ao (feminine à, masculine plural aos, feminine plural às)

1. Contraction of a o (“to the (masculine singular)”).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ao.

From Proto-Polynesian *ao (“to scoop up”). Cognates include Tokelauan ao and Maori ao.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.o/
• Hyphenation: a‧o

ao

1. (transitive) to serve (food)

• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 395

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Tagalog araw).

ao

1. day

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Hawaiian ao).

ao

1. cloud

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-ao (declinable)

1. their (third-person plural animate possessive adjective)

• Hyphenation: a‧o
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaʔo/, [ˈʔa.ʔo]

ao

1. (Bataan, informal) yes (said for emotional emphasis)

   Synonym: oo

   Antonym: hindi

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.o]

ao

1. planks for a canoe

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.o/
• Hyphenation: a‧o

From Proto-Polynesian *qaho. Cognates include Hawaiian ao and Samoan ao.

ao

1. daylight
2. daytime

ao

1. (intransitive) to be daylight

From Proto-Polynesian *qao. Cognates include Hawaiian ao and Samoan ao.

ao

1. cloud

From Proto-Polynesian *ao. Cognates include Maori ao and Samoan ao.

ao

1. (transitive) to gather

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *qao. Cognates include Maori ao and Samoan ao.

ao

1. (intransitive) to be good at gathering food

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *qao (“authority”). Cognates include Tahitian ao (“heaven”) and Samoan ao (“chief”).

ao

1. head, chief

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ao

1. (transitive) to shape (wood)

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *ao. Cognates include Tahitian ao and Tuvaluan ao.

ao

1. A grossly misformed coconut without any flesh or juice inside.

• tama

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 2

• IPA^(key): /a.o/

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Hawaiian ao).

ao

1. cloud

• aoaofia

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ao

1. headdress
2. front of an island

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaːw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔaːw˧˧]

Probably a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 澳 (“bay, inlet”, SV: áo).

(classifier cái) ao • (㘭, 坳, 泑, 𪵲, 𬇚)

1. pond
   • Nguyễn Khuyến, "Thu điếu (Autumn Fishing)"

     Ao thu lạnh lẽo; nuớc trong veo;
     Một chiếc thuyền câu bé tẻo teo;

     The cold autumn pond; the clear water;
     A tiny, itsy-bitsy, fishing boat;

   • 1686 Matsuo Bashō, Haru no Hi, "No. 41"; 2007 Vietnamese translation by Nhật Chiêu; English translation by Reginald Horace Blyth

     Ao cũ, con ếch nhảy vào, vang tiếng nước xao.

     The old pond; A frog jumps in — The sound of the water.

ao • (呦)

1. to measure roughly, to measure approximately

• "ao" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

• awó
• aghó

• IPA^(key): /ā.ó/

aó

1. (Ekiti) Ekiti form of awó (“guinea fowl”)

   Synonym: ẹtù