waku

waku

1. Rōmaji transcription of わく

waku

1. spider

• wakungarri

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

waku

1. to scrape

• wakuwaku

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “waku, wakuwaku”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 561
• “waku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwa.ku/

waku

1. bath (bathing place, river port or stream where people go to bathe)

   Aya waku nitsenu.

   Let's go [to the] bathing [place] together. (lit., Let's go [to the] bathing [place] with me.)

   Piye waku! Enupai kamo. Tsokojo pitsu!

   Go bathe! The sun is high in the sky. You're [like] an agouti!

   (Agoutis are tropical American rodents about the size of a rabbit. The Wauja say they avoid water.)

   Kanaipai ninyeulu, tsala? Aitsa painyakupai. Iya waku papa itsenu.

   Q: Where's my sister-in-law, dear boy? [addressing a nephew regarding his mom's whereabouts]. A: She's not home. She went to bathe with dad.

   Anatapai umejo. Aitsa iyapai waku itsenu. Aitsa aintyapai umapiya, paponaku pata aintyapai. Anatatai.

   [She] rejects her husband. [She] doesn't go to bathe with [him]. [She] doesn't eat his catch [the food he provides]; [she] eats only in her [parents'] house. [She] simply rejects [him].

• owakun (his/her/its years)

• E. Ireland field notes. Need to be checked by native speaker.

waku (plural pei wakuku)

1. muscle

• Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎^[1] (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN