"awo" meaning in Sranan Tongo

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      "expansion": "awo",
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  ],
  "lang": "Sranan Tongo",
  "lang_code": "srn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sranan Tongo entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "awodia"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "My child calls my grandmother \"their great-grandparent\"; likewise, they call my grandfather \"their great-grandparent\", too.",
          "ref": "1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]",
          "text": "mi pikin kali mi grangmamma \"hem awò\" : so srefi a kali mi grangtatta \"hem awò\" tu.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "And all our forefathers of the olden days were African negroes from negro-country. It was over there that the whites of old went and bought our forefathers and put them in ships to take them across the big salt water, and brought them here to the city of Paramaribo.",
          "ref": "c. 1885, Johannes King, “Skrekiboekoe”, in Jan Voorhoeve, Ursy M. Lichtveld, editors, Suriname: Spiegel der vaderlandse kooplieden, Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, published 1980, pages 108, 110",
          "text": "En ala dem ouloetem gran avoo vo wi ben de Afrikan ningre na ningre kondre. Na janda dem ouroetem bakra go bai dem avoo vo wi potti na ini sipi tjari koti habra da bigi soutoe watra, en dem tjari dem kom doro dia na foto Paramaribo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Globe amaranth, globe amaranth, the way you grow is / how my country should thrive: just like my ancestors",
          "ref": "1994, Albert Helman, Adyosi / Afscheid, Nijmegen: Stichting Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, page 64",
          "text": "Stanfaste, Stanfaste, na fas' fa y' e gro / mi kondre mu libi: net' lek' mi awo",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "great-grandparent, ancestor, forebear"
      ],
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          "great-grandparent",
          "great-grandparent#English"
        ],
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          "ancestor",
          "ancestor#English"
        ],
        [
          "forebear",
          "forebear#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "afo"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "awo"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "yo:Birds",
    "yo:Divination",
    "yo:Kitchenware",
    "yo:People",
    "yo:Yoruba religion"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "awodia"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "srn",
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      "expansion": "awo",
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  ],
  "lang": "Sranan Tongo",
  "lang_code": "srn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Sranan Tongo entries with incorrect language header",
        "Sranan Tongo lemmas",
        "Sranan Tongo nouns",
        "Sranan Tongo terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "My child calls my grandmother \"their great-grandparent\"; likewise, they call my grandfather \"their great-grandparent\", too.",
          "ref": "1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]",
          "text": "mi pikin kali mi grangmamma \"hem awò\" : so srefi a kali mi grangtatta \"hem awò\" tu.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "And all our forefathers of the olden days were African negroes from negro-country. It was over there that the whites of old went and bought our forefathers and put them in ships to take them across the big salt water, and brought them here to the city of Paramaribo.",
          "ref": "c. 1885, Johannes King, “Skrekiboekoe”, in Jan Voorhoeve, Ursy M. Lichtveld, editors, Suriname: Spiegel der vaderlandse kooplieden, Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, published 1980, pages 108, 110",
          "text": "En ala dem ouloetem gran avoo vo wi ben de Afrikan ningre na ningre kondre. Na janda dem ouroetem bakra go bai dem avoo vo wi potti na ini sipi tjari koti habra da bigi soutoe watra, en dem tjari dem kom doro dia na foto Paramaribo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Globe amaranth, globe amaranth, the way you grow is / how my country should thrive: just like my ancestors",
          "ref": "1994, Albert Helman, Adyosi / Afscheid, Nijmegen: Stichting Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, page 64",
          "text": "Stanfaste, Stanfaste, na fas' fa y' e gro / mi kondre mu libi: net' lek' mi awo",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "great-grandparent, ancestor, forebear"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "great-grandparent",
          "great-grandparent#English"
        ],
        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor#English"
        ],
        [
          "forebear",
          "forebear#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "afo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "awo"
}