māsima
Tongan
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Oceanic *maqasin (“salt”) (compare with Samoan māsima and Fijian masima) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)qasin (compare with Malay masin (“salty”) and Tagalog asin (“salt”)).[1][2]
Noun
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References
edit- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “masi.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 70