kokomo

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English

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Noun

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kokomo (plural kokomos)

  1. Synonym of Blyth's hornbill

Maori

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Etymology

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Partial reduplication of komo (“to insert”) from Proto-Polynesian *komo₁ (compare with Hawaiian ʻomo (“lid, cover”)).[1]

Verb

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kokomo

  1. to wear, to put on something

Noun

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kokomo

  1. shirt

References

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  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “komo.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

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  • Tent, Jan, Geraghty, Paul (2003) Borrowing: a Pacific perspective, The Australian National University, →ISBN, page 151
  • “kokomo” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Tok Pisin

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Noun

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kokomo

  1. hornbill
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