Old Javanese Etymology Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada. Pronunciation IPA(key): /wa.ja/ Hyphenation: wa‧ya Particle wwaya no Alternative forms oya woya Descendants Javanese: ꦧꦺꦴꦪ (boya) ⇒ Jambi Malay: (Kota Seberang) moya Further reading P. J. Zoetmulder (1982) Old Javanese-English dictionary, 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, →ISBN, →OCLCWikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.