fangu

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian fangu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfan.ɡu/

Noun

fangu m (plural fangi)

  1. volcanic mud
    Hypernym: tajn

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *faŋu₁ - cognate of Samoan fagu.[1][2] Sense of bottle product of semantic broadening, compare with said Samoan cognate and Hawaiian hue for similar patterns.[3]

Noun

fangu

  1. bottle gourd or calabash, Lagenaria siceraria
  2. bottle

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fagu.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 424
  3. ^ “Proto Polynesian Etymologies: *Hue”, in Te Māra Reo: The Language Garden‎[1], Benton Family Trust, 2024
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