kwai

kwai (plural kwai)

1. Alternative form of kuai (“yuan, Chinese currency”)

• kwai muk

• Kawi

• IPA^(key): /kʷaʔi/

kwai m (masc. plural kwaibii, fem. kwaiko, fem. plural kwaibee) (Note: the form after a determiner is kwai)

1. warthog

• hatchâ

kwai

1. water

• Jesse Lovegren, Alice Mitchell, and Natsuko Nakagawa, The Wala language of Malaita, Solomon Islands (2015)

• chai (allomorph after i)

From Proto-Cariban [Term?]. Compare Apalaí kuae, Hixkaryana kwaye, Macushi kapai, and Waiwai kway.

• IPA^(key): [kʷaj]

kwai

1. through, by; indicates motion by way of an aquatic object

This postposition cannot take person markers to indicate its object.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 267–272