In Urikuilla, the word ayawiri means "the place or the town where reeds grow."

Tall reeds grew by the frozen shore.

Birds know that the white reed also grows in the entrails, and they are careful not to swallow its seed or its shoot.

Yamaska in Abenaki language means "where the reeds grow"

He found the spot where the three reeds were growing and at a single blow cut down all three with his sword.

In fact, the reeds were growing through it in places.

Nerulf had waded out to where the reeds grew thick and soft.

He found a place where the reeds grew tall, checked that he was completely alone, stripped down to his shorts and stepped to the river's edge.

Sickly-looking reeds and water plants grew on all sides.

The name Shari in Ainu means marshes where reeds are growing.