nuanua

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Uneapa

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Oceanic *qanunu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanunu, variant of *qaninu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiŋu, though this suffers from phonological problems.

Pronunciation

Noun

nuanua

  1. shadow

Further reading

  • Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
  • Goodenough, Ward H. (1997). Proto-Kimbe: A New Analysis. Oceanic Linguistics. 36 (2): p. 274.