n. a genus of plants of the laurel family. Botanist Susanne Renner identified nineteen neotropical species of Aiouea for the book Lauraceae, Part I (Aniba and Aiouea).
Aiu.
n. a plain in Ethiopia.
Aiua.
n. a populated place in the Ceara region of Brazil.
n. a populated place in the Sandaun region of Papua New Guinea.
aiua.
n. a pre-existent soul; the thread-like spirit-essence binding all life in the universe, as discussed in Ender’s Game and related novels by Orson Scott Card.
<I continue to exist because the aiua whose irresistible will called me into existence continues to imagine me. Continues to need me, to control me, to be my will. —Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind.>
n. a word from “some imaginary language ... of circus people familiar with all manner of swindling,” encouraging the wheel of fortune to turn, as in The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun.
Aiy.
n. a populated place in the Al Karak region of Jordan.
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