lialiaʻi

Samoan

Etymology 1

Reduplication of liaʻi from Proto-Polynesian *liaki “to cast or throw away” (compare with Tongan lialiaki “to wave” and liaki “to cast off”)[1]

Verb

lialiaʻi

  1. to whirl something around

Derived terms

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

Etymology 2

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Verb

lialiaʻi

  1. to shake one's head
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