uvi

uvi

1. Alternative form of uvve

• Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño, El Ecuador Interandino y Occidental, antes de la Conquista ... (1941): uvve; uvi; "en este idioma uivi, uvvi, uvoi, uvve es agua y río"; "uvvi en Esmeraldeño"
• América (1934), volume 9, page 336: "en la lengua Esmeralda agua es uvi o uivi"

From Proto-Central Pacific *quvi, from Proto-Oceanic *qupi (compare Hawaiian uhi, Maori uhi, Samoan ufi), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qubi (compare Indonesian ubi, Malay ubi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈuβi/

uvi

1. yam (any Dioscorea vine)

• IPA^(key): /ˈuvi/

uvi

1. plural of òvo

From ubi.

uvi

1. yam