nahau
Hawaiian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Semi-learned borrowing from Fijian gasau simulating inheritance from Proto-Polynesian *ŋasau (cognate with Tongan ngahau).
Noun
[edit]nahau
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Schütz, Albert J. (2019) Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 266
Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic نَحْو (naḥw).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nahau class IX (plural nahau class X)
- idiom (established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words)
Categories:
- Hawaiian terms borrowed from Fijian
- Hawaiian semi-learned borrowings from Fijian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Fijian
- Hawaiian terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
- Hawaiian lemmas
- Hawaiian nouns
- Swahili terms borrowed from Arabic
- Swahili terms derived from Arabic
- Swahili terms derived from the Arabic root ن ح و
- Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili class IX nouns
- sw:Figures of speech