ʻĀina ʻŌmaʻomaʻo

Hawaiian

Etymology

ʻāina (“land”) +‎ ʻōmaʻomaʻo (“green”), a calque of English Greenland.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔaːi̯.na ʔoː.ma.ʔoˈma.ʔo/, [ˈʔaːj.nə ʔoː.mə.ʔoˈmɐ.ʔo]

Proper noun

ʻĀina ʻŌmaʻomaʻo

  1. Greenland (a large self-governing island and dependent territory of Denmark, in North America)

Verb

ʻĀina ʻŌmaʻomaʻo

  1. (stative) Greenlandic
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