hono

See also: hönö and ho'no

Carabayo

Etymology

Compare Yuri oná (“son”) (Martius' spelling).

Noun

hono

  1. boy

References

  • Seifart and Echeverri, Evidence for the Identification of Carabayo, the Language of an Uncontacted People of the Colombian Amazon, as Belonging to the Tikuna–Yurí Linguistic Family, PLoS ONE 9(4) (2014)

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *faŋa₃ from Proto-Oceanic *paŋa (“to gape open”); compare with Maori whanga (“bay, gulf”), Tahitian faʻa (“valley”), Tongan fanga, and Samoan faga (“bay”)[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈho.no/

Noun

hono

  1. harbor
  2. (archaic) bay

Derived terms

See also

  • kūʻono

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 610
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “faga.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 47

Maori

Verb

hono

  1. add
  2. join
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