wazu
See also: wą́žu
Japanese
Romanization
wazu
Pazeh
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *asu.
Noun
wazu
- dog (animal)
- Yaku kikita wazu. ― I am looking at a dog.
- Pakanay wazu liaku. ― I was about to feed the dog.
Derived terms
- maatiwazu (“to hunt with dogs”)
References
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
- Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸); Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2001), Pazih Dictionary (巴宰語詞典) (in Chinese), Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN, page 316
- Lin, Ying-jin (林英津) (2000), 巴則海語 [The Pazeh language], Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 88.