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Maltese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sicilian fangu.
Pronunciation
Noun
fangu m (plural fangi)
- volcanic mud
- Hypernym: tajn
Tongan
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *faŋu₁ - cognate of Samoan fagu.[1][2] Sense of bottle product of semantic broadening, compare with said Samoan cognate and Hawaiian hue for similar patterns.[3]
Noun
fangu
- 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