sawit 1 Variant. lawit verb English. Does not quite, or barely reaches, touches, or affects s.t., as a branch of a tree barely touching the ground, or a knife scarcely inflicting a wound. Example sentence: Subanen. Su tengul, kali'u tindu'ay, nda' gupia mesampet, lemen laak misawit ditu, kaas nda' mbuksak. English. When I cut a tree so that it would fall against the dead tree and knock it over, it didn't quite touch the dead tree; it just brushed against it, and so it didn't fall over. pesawit noun Note. fishnet