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Hawaiian
Etymology
ʻāina (“land”) + ʻōmaʻomaʻo (“green”), a calque of English Greenland.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʔaːi̯.na ʔoː.ma.ʔoˈma.ʔo/,
Proper noun
ʻĀina ʻŌmaʻomaʻo
- Greenland (a large self-governing island and dependent territory of Denmark, in North America)
Verb
ʻĀina ʻŌmaʻomaʻo
- (stative) Greenlandic