panyawat

Sundanese

Sundanese register set
lemes panyawat, kasawat
lemes ka sorangan {{{les}}}
lemes ka batur {{{leb}}}
loma panyakit, kasakit
cohag {{{co}}}

Etymology

Unknown, probably form pa +‎ sawat, Inherited from Old Sundanese awat. Possibly cognate with Proto-Philippine *abat₂ (“spirit that causes sickness”).

Noun

panyawat

  1. illness, indisposition; disease

Further reading

  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*abat₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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