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Nauruan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Oceanic *ma-ramaR (“shine, be bright”) (compare Hawaiian malama (“moon, moonlight”)) from *ramaR (“light, luminosity”) (compare Hawaiian lama (“torch, light”)), probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damaR from Proto-Austronesian *damaR (though the Malayo-Polynesian examples outside of Oceanic such as Malay damar mostly refer to plant resins, said to be related in meaning through their use in torches).
Nomen
[edit]maraman
- The moon
References
[edit]- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
- Delaporte's Nauruan Dictionary
Kategorien:
- Nauruan terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic
- Nauruan terms derived from Proto-Oceanic
- Nauruan terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Nauruan terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Nauruan terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian
- Nauruan terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Nauruan lemmas
- Nauruan nouns
- na:Astronomy
- na:Celestial bodies
- na:Light sources