pūnāwelewele
Hawaiian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate of Maori pūngāwerewere, Tahitian pūʻāverevere “cobweb” and Samoan ʻapogāleveleve from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *puŋa-a-leveleve[1] metathesizing Proto-Polynesian *puŋa-a-welewele[2] related to *ka-lewelewe (compare with Tongan kaleveleve) affixing *lewelewe possibly a cognate of *lawalawa ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq (compare with Malay labah-labah and Cebuano lawa).[3]
Noun
[edit]pūnāwelewele
References
[edit]- ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “pūnāwelewele”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 355
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “puga-a-werewere”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D. (2011) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 4, Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 409; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)
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- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
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