talingelinga

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *taliŋa (“ear”) (compare with Maori taringa, Tahitian tariʻa, Fijian daliga), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taliŋa (compare with Malay telinga).[1][2] Doublet of talinga.

Noun

talingelinga

  1. fungus

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “taliga”, 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, pages 78-9
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