Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A New Zealand laurineous tree, Beilschmiedia (Nesodaphne) Tawa, 60 or 70 feet high, but inferior as timber.
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Examples
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At my cousin's wedding some five years back, the most popular dish was a mixed vegetable fry prepared entirely on the 'tawa' griddle.
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No matter what they tell you must never forget the one fundamental operating philosophy (tawa) behind their words.
Jamyang Norbu: Remembering Tibet's Freedom Fighters Jamyang Norbu 2010
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No matter what they tell you must never forget the one fundamental operating philosophy (tawa) behind their words.
Jamyang Norbu: Remembering Tibet's Freedom Fighters Jamyang Norbu 2010
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No matter what they tell you must never forget the one fundamental operating philosophy (tawa) behind their words.
Jamyang Norbu: Remembering Tibet's Freedom Fighters Jamyang Norbu 2010
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No matter what they tell you must never forget the one fundamental operating philosophy (tawa) behind their words.
Jamyang Norbu: Remembering Tibet's Freedom Fighters Jamyang Norbu 2010
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In this case, it might have arisen through the path *tawa - *tau - *to DO.
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First off, what was immediately shocking to me was that I wasn't even aware of Luwian tawa- 'eye' when I supplied the value of 'to see, to behold' and also 'to make see; to show' to the apparent verb root *tau.
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Considering the Luwian stem tawa-, it makes more sense that it was Latin that borrowed the Etruscan word and that this verb is much older than Etruscan, probably stemming right back to the Proto-Aegean parent which I situate in the Aegean islands, Western Turkey and Cyprus.
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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No matter what they tell you must never forget the one fundamental operating philosophy tawa behind their words.
Jamyang Norbu: Remembering Tibet's Freedom Fighters Jamyang Norbu 2010
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Considering the Luwian stem tawa-, it makes more sense that it was Latin that borrowed the Etruscan word and that this verb is much older than Etruscan, probably stemming right back to the Proto-Aegean parent which I situate in the Aegean islands, Western Turkey and Cyprus.
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