awet

Usage note:
The obstruction may be physical—such as an object blocking a passage—or abstract, such as a difficulty, delay, interfering person, or adverse circumstance.

Possible English equivalents: obstacle; obstruction; impediment; hindrance; encumbrance.

Contrast: awet “an obstruction or impediment” and a’wet “to remove food or a cooking vessel from the heat” are distinct lexemes. The Okina ’ in a’wet represents a phonemic glottal articulation; it is an integral Boie’nen grapheme, not optional punctuation. Compare also ma’wet “to hope or wish for.”

• awet — obstruction, impediment
• a’wet — remove from cooking heat

Editorial Note:
The present draft should not say that the forms are differentiated “solely” by a punctuation symbol. They are differentiated by a phonemic glottal consonant represented orthographically by the Okina.