"-aŭ" meaning in Esperanto

See -aŭ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

Etymology: Unknown. -aŭ was the only possible vocalic ending left in the language, after the dedicated part-of-speech suffixes, apart from the uncommon -eŭ. There are, however, sporadic parallels in other languages, such as Lithuanian tačiau "however". Etymology templates: {{unk|eo}} Unknown Head templates: {{head|eo|suffix}} -aŭ
  1. A neutral suffix that does not specify the part of speech of a word. Generally used for words such as hodiaŭ "today" which may be either an adverb or a conjunction, noun, preposition, or adjective, depending on context. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--aŭ-eo-suffix-fYSNL5yQ Categories (other): Esperanto 1894 Universala Vortaro, Esperanto BRO1, Esperanto endings, Esperanto entries with incorrect language header, Esperanto entries with language name categories using raw markup, Esperanto terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Pages with raw sortkeys, Words approved by the Akademio de Esperanto Derived forms: adiaŭ (english: goodbye) [interjection], almenaŭ (english: at least) [adverb, conjunction], ambaŭ (english: both) [adjective, adverb], ankaŭ (english: also) [adverb], ankoraŭ (english: still, yet) [adverb, conjunction], anstataŭ (english: instead of; preposition and conjunction), antaŭ (the -aŭ cannot be removed) (english: before; preposition), apenaŭ (english: barely) [adverb, conjunction], baldaŭ (english: soon) [adverb], ĉirkaŭ (english: around; preposition and adverb), graŭ (english: because of; preposition and neologism), hieraŭ (english: yesterday) [adverb, noun], hodiaŭ (english: today) [adverb, noun], kontraŭ (english: against; preposition and adverb), kvazaŭ (english: as if) [adverb, conjunction], malgraŭ (english: despite; preposition), morgaŭ (english: tomorrow) [adverb, noun], preskaŭ (english: almost) [adverb]

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          "english": "as if",
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          "english": "despite; preposition",
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          "english": "tomorrow",
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      "english": "goodbye",
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      "word": "adiaŭ"
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    {
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