List of English words of Polynesian origin information

following words used in English exist as loanwords from one or more Polynesian languages. Words from Hawaiian and Māori are listed separately at List of English...

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category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lists of English words of international origin List of English words of Polynesian origin Carr, Elizabeth...

This is a list of English words that are borrowed directly or ultimately from Dravidian languages. Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada...

some Polynesian Latin-based scripts. Rongorongo – the undeciphered script of Easter Island (Rapanui). List of English words of Polynesian origin Wikimedia...

Tagalog. Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language. canaco= Polynesian (adjective)...

archipelago. Conversely, many words of Malay-Indonesian origin have also been borrowed into English. Words borrowed into English (e.g., bamboo, orangutan,...

Malayo-Polynesian, it is related to other Austronesian languages, such as Malagasy, Javanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum (of Timor), and Yami (of Taiwan)...

and Polynesian languages. One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some...

gesture, in deference to newly hired Kalani Sitake, BYU's Polynesian head football coach, and because of its similarity with the letter Y in the American manual...

Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific...

World (1778), he posited that the ultimate origins of the Polynesians might have been the lowland regions of the Philippines and proposed that they arrived...

language) belong to the Malayo-Polynesian (sometimes called Extra-Formosan) branch. Most Austronesian languages lack a long history of written attestation. This...

unfamiliarity with English, it became corrupted as mat salleh (Mat and Salleh are both typical Malay names). Another possible origin of the phrase is the...

included in the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian family. Because Guam was colonized by Spain for over 300 years, many words derive from the Spanish...

the Oceanian words for candlenut are believed to be derived instead from Proto-Austronesian *CuSuR which became Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuhuR, originally...

ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands are split between the sovereign country of Samoa and...

lists of potential cognates. For example, in the Polynesian data above, it is apparent that words that contain t in most of the languages listed have cognates...

related Polynesian languages such as Cook Islands Māori. New Zealand portal Aloha Talofa Māori language influence on New Zealand English List of English words...

, words in two or more languages that look similar (homographs) or sound similar (homophones), but differ significantly in meaning. The origin of the...

The long list of conflicting stories about the origin of chop suey is, in the words of food historian Alan Davidson, "a prime example of culinary mythology"...

many other Malayo-Polynesian languages. /z/ is often devoiced to [s], whereas [ʒ] is often devoiced to [ʃ] or affricated to [dʒ], so words like "zoo", "measure"...

proportion of words of Māori origin at approximately 0.6%, mostly place and personal names. Some Māori words occur in New Zealand English, such as kia...

Hawaiʻi, pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its...

This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants...