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Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *namu (“taste, odour, flavour”) (compare with Samoan nāmu (“to smell of sth”), Tongan namu (“to emit a smell”) and nanamu (“odour, smell”))[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ñamñam (“taste”) (compare with Tagalog namnam)[2][3]
Noun
namunamuā
- flavour
- spice
- Synonym: amiami
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 68
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “namu.1a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 510-1
Further reading
- “namunamuā” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.