kuwu.
village head
Meaning & usage
village head
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦸꦮꦸ (kuwu, “village head, village messenger; to camp”), from Old Javanese kuwu (“dwelling, housing, quarter, lodging; encampment, tent; residence; administrative division under a kuwu, akuwu; leader of such administrative division”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (“field hut in the rice fields”). Doublet of kubu.
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