lawi

• IPA^(key): /ˈɽa.w⁽ᵝ⁾í/

laŵí class 5 (plural malaŵí class 6)

1. flame

• Malawi

• laui — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawi (“long tail feathers of bird or rooster”). Compare Ilocano lawi, Cebuano lawi, Maranao lawi, and Malay lawi.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /laˈwi/ [lɐˈwɪ]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: la‧wi

lawí (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜏᜒ)

1. long tail feather of a rooster

• “lawi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 486: “Plumas) Lavi (pc) dela cola del gallo que ſon buenas para plumajes”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lawi”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• laiw, iwal, ilaw, aliw

lawi

1. house