nahau

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Hawaiian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Semi-learned borrowing from Fijian gasau simulating inheritance from Proto-Polynesian *ŋasau (cognate with Tongan ngahau).

Noun[edit]

nahau

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • Schütz, Albert J. (2019) Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 266

Swahili[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic نَحْو (naḥw).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Noun[edit]

nahau (n class, plural nahau)

  1. idiom (established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words)