toua

Aba guinoo Maria ma toua cana, napopono ca nang graçia. ang panginoon di os, ce, nasayyo.

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951

_Barbiere_, and the signora would give "_Roberto, toua qué z'aime_" in French (or, rather, "_Ropert, doi que ch'aime_," as _she_ called it, correcting his accent), and the fenomeno, whose name was

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

"That banian-tree, my grandfather said, held the _toua_, the cord of cocoanut fiber that held the living meat suspended above the baking pit.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Encò, chouval ka passé, -- chouval ka ni anni toua patt: ça zombi. "

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877