fokai
Tongan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Fijian vokai.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]fokai
- iguanids i.e. of the iguana family esp. the Brachylophus genus
References
[edit]- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fokai”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2011) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 4: Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 255-6