vängä

See also: vanga and Vanga

Äiwoo

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *paŋan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

Verb

vängä

1. (intransitive) to eat
2. to scratch off

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.