whanga
Māori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *faŋa₃ from Proto-Oceanic *paŋa (“to gape open”); compare with Hawaiian hono (“harbor”), Tahitian faʻa (“valley”), Tongan fanga, and Samoan faga (“bay”)[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whanga
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), “whanga”, in Maori–Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 610
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “faga.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
- ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2003), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic[2], volume 2: The Physical Environment, Australian National University, →ISBN, page 47