yawe

From Spanish llave (“key”), from Latin clāvis (“key”). This and yabe seem to be more recent developments as they seem to be affected by yeísmo. Yawe seems to be the most recent out of the two as the [b] lenited to [w]. If the word was borrowed earlier, it might have been *lyabe or *liyabe.

yawe

1. key

yawe

1. ji-ma class subject inflected plural subjunctive affirmative of -wa

• yaui, yavi, yavy – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
• yawi

Early borrowing from Spanish llave (“key”), from Latin clāvis (“key”). Doublet of liyabe.

• Hyphenation: ya‧we
• IPA^(key): /ˈjawe/, [ˈja.we]

yawe (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜏᜒ)

1. key

   Synonyms: susi, liyabe

• “yawe”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 397: “Llaue) [Yavi] (pp.) cualquiera queſea”
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 613: “Zerrar) [Yavi] (pp.) C. con llaue”

• jawe

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

yàwè

1. water

• Topics in Chadic linguistics 3, volume 3 (2007)