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Aromanian
Etymology
From Latin fāgus.
Noun
fagu m
- beech
- fir
Corsican
Etymology
From Latin fāgus.
Noun
fagu m
- beech
References
- “fagu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
Samoan
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *faŋu₁ - cognate of Tongan fangu.[1][2] Sense of bottle product of semantic broadening, compare with said Tongan cognate and Hawaiian hue for similar patterns.[3]
Noun
fagu
- bottle gourd or calabash, Lagenaria siceraria
- bottle
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fagu.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 424
- ^ “Proto Polynesian Etymologies: *Hue”, in Te Māra Reo: The Language Garden, Benton Family Trust, 2024