manaʻo
See also: manao
Hawaiian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *manako (compare with Māori manako “to long for, to desire or want, to like”; Rarotongan manako “to think, to consider”, Tahitian manaʻo “to think, to reflect”, Tongan manako “to desire”)[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]manaʻo
Verb
[edit]manaʻo
- (transitive) to think, to consider
Synonyms
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “manaʻo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 236
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “manako”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
Tahitian
[edit]Verb
[edit]manaʻo