mōmona

See also: momona

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *mona (compare with Hawaiian mona and momona (“fat, soft, sweet”), Tahitian momona and monamona (“sweet, tasty, dessert”)),[1] from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak (compare with Malay minyak (“oil”)).[2]

Noun

mōmona

  1. fat, corpulence, obesity
  2. fertility, richness

Adjective

mōmona

  1. fatty
  2. fat, plump
  3. fertile, rich

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 251
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “moo-mona”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • “mōmona” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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