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mākona

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See also: mākonā, mākoņa, and ma'kona

Latvian

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Adjective

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mākona

  1. (archaic) genitive masculine singular of mākons
  2. (archaic) nominative feminine singular of mākons

Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *maa-kona (compare with Hawaiian māʻona (“full, satisfied”))[1][2]

Adjective

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mākona

  1. satisfied, content

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 200
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kona.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

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  • “mākona” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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