fuawe
Swahili
Etymology
Thought by Madan to be from -fuawa (“to be beat”), but Klein-Arendt shows it is from -fua jiwe (“beat a stone”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
fuawe (n class, plural fuawe)
- anvil
References
- Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000), “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum, volume 7, pages 153–204