lialia

Samoan

Etymology

From lialiaʻi reduplication of liaʻi “to twirl, to whirl” from Proto-Polynesian *liaki (compare with Tongan lialiaki and liaki)[1]

Noun

lialia

  1. any form of noodle esp. vermicelli used to cook sapasui

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “liaki”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
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