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Aua; this word I take to be a form of the interjection yahue, or, as Olmos gives it in his Grammar, aa. 2. nepohualoyan; "the place of counting or reckoning," from pohua, to count. The reference is not clear, and the translation uncertain. In some parts of ancient Mexico they used in their accounting knotted cords of various colors, like the Peruvian quipus. These were called nepohualtzitzin.
"'Aue te hanahana, aua ho'i te kaikai, said his father-in-law. 'He who will not labor, neither shall he eat. But the white man laughed and ate and labored not. "A season passed and another, and there came a time of little rain. The bananas were few, and the breadfruit were not plentiful.
Kotuko made him a tiny harness with a trace to it, and hauled him all over the house-floor, shouting: "Aua! Ja aua!" "Choiachoi! Ja choiachoi!" "Ohaha!" The puppy did not like it at all, but being fished for in this way was pure happiness beside being put to the sleigh for the first time.
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