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guaio.

lament, lamentation, cry

5 characters1 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɡwa.jo/

  1. lament, lamentation, cry

    archaic · error-lua-exec · literary · masculine · plural-normally

  2. hardship, misfortune

    error-lua-exec · masculine · plural-normally

  3. trouble, difficulty, mess, pickle, fix, woe, jam

    broadly · error-lua-exec · masculine
    Io non ho guai.
    Siamo nei guai.
Where this word comes from

Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *wai (“expression of grief”). Alternatively from Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí), from the verse in Revelation 8:13. Compare English woe, German Weh, Latin vae.

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