zilwa
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Mauritian Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French îles + -ois. In French, the plural word îles is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, îles was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the beginning..
Noun
[edit]zilwa