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Tongan
Etymology
Cognate with Fijian vokai.
Noun
fokai
- iguanids i.e. of the iguana family esp. the Brachylophus genus
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fokai”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2011) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 4: Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 255-6