luwo

See also: Luwo

Aiwoo

Verb

luwo

to fall, drop
to fly, jump

References

Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Tocharian B

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *luh₁eh₂, through Proto-Tocharian *lŭwā-. Compare Tocharian A lu. May be distantly related Old Church Slavonic ловъ (lovŭ, “the chase”), Serbo-Croatian lȏv (“chase; game animal”); cf. also Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, “lion”).

Noun

luwo n

animal

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