fau
See also: fa'u
Translingual
Symbol
fau
Hausa
Pronunciation
Ideophone
fau
- (of a thing or action) extreme
Kashubian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Pfau. Doublet of paw, a form borrowed from Polish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfa.u/
- Rhymes: -au
- Syllabification: fa‧u
Noun
fau m animal
- synonym of paw
Further reading
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “paw”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[1]
Middle English
Noun
fau
- alternative form of fou
Norman
Etymology
From Old French fau (“beech”), from Latin fagus.
Noun
fau m (plural faus)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
fau
Descendants
Rotuman
Etymology
From Proto-Central Pacific *taqu, from Proto-Oceanic *taqun, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *taqun, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *taqun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun. Cognate with Fijian tau.
Noun
fau
- year (time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun)
- ʻInea maf ne fau teʻis?
- Who knows what year it is?
- (literally, “Who knows the figures of this year?”)
- (by extension, agriculture) crop, harvest, season (of those produced annually)
- Near-synonym: moea
- Gou ʻinea ʻe fau mör he ta la fuamamau.
- I know the orange crop season will be abundant.
Usage notes
When referring to crops, it tends to refer to oranges (mori), yams (ʻuhi/ʻuhlei), pineapples (pạinapa) and sometimes ambarellas (vī).
Derived terms
- aʻöf fau, pög aʻöf fau (“watchnight”, literally “finishing year”)
- faut la noʻoana (“next year”)
- faut ne ofiofu (“last year”)
- faut ne öf mumua (“two years ago, year before last year”)
- ʻon väeag rua ne fau (“midyear, middle of the year”)
See also
- gasava (“week”)
- hula, hule (“month, moon”)
- tạfi (period of six lunar months typical for the reign of a Rotuman king (sau)) (historical)
- terạni (“day”)
References
- Churchward, C.M. (1940), “fau”, in Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary[2], Sydney, Australia: Methodist Church of Australasia, →ISBN, page 196
- Inia, Elizabeth K.; Arntsen, Sofie; Schmidt, Hans; Rensel, Jan; Howard, Alan (1998), “year fau”, in A New Rotuman Dictionary: An English–Rotuman Wordlist[3], Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, revision of Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary by Churchward, C.M., →ISBN, page 159
Samoan
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *fau, from Proto-Oceanic *paʀu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀu. Cognate with Malay baru and Hawaiian hau.
Noun
fau