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Hawaiian
Etymology
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Perhaps cognate with Rennellese tumaʻa.
Pronunciation
Infix
-kūmā-
- Nonproductive numerical infix needed to combine the tens and ones places; roughly meaning plus.
- kanakolu (“thirty”) → kanakolukūmākahi (“thirty one”)