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Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *kuku (“finger, fingernail”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kukuh (“claw, fingernail”), from Proto-Austronesian *kuSkuS.
Pronunciation
Noun
kuku-
- finger
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
- Ross, Malcolm D. (2016) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)