namunamuā
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *namu (“taste, odour, flavour”) (compare with Samoan nāmu (“to smell of sth”), Tongan namu (“to emit a smell”) and nanamu (“odour, smell”))[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ñamñam (“taste”) (compare with Tagalog namnam)[2][3]
Noun
[edit]namunamuā
References
[edit]- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 68
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “namu.1a”, 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 (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 510-1