fau

See also: fa'u

Translingual

Symbol

fau

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fayu.

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fáu/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸáu]

Ideophone

fau

1. (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

1. synonym of paw

Further reading

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “paw”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

Middle English

Noun

fau

1. alternative form of fou

Norman

Etymology

From Old French fau (“beech”), from Latin fagus.

Noun

fau m (plural faus)

1. (Jersey) beech tree

Old French

Alternative forms

• fou

Etymology

From Latin fagus.

Noun

fau

1. beech

Descendants

• Franc-Comtois: fô
• Gallo: faeu
• Norman: fau (Jersey)

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

1. 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?”)

2. (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

1. cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus)