fangu

fangu

Maltese

Etymology

Etymology tree
Sicilian fangubor.
Maltese fangu

    Borrowed from Sicilian fangu.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈfan.ɡu/
    • Rhymes: -anɡu

    Noun

    fangu m (plural fangi)

    1. volcanic mud
      Hypernym: tajn

    Tongan

    Etymology

    From Proto-Polynesian *faŋu. Cognates include Samoan fagu and Tokelauan fagu.[1][2]

    Sense of bottle product is due to semantic broadening; compare with said Samoan cognate and Hawaiian hue for similar patterns.[3]

    Noun

    fangu

    1. bottle gourd or calabash, Lagenaria siceraria
    2. bottle

    References

    1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fagu.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
    2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D.; Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (2008), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 424
    3. ^ “Proto Polynesian Etymologies: *Hue”, in Te Māra Reo: The Language Garden‎[1], Benton Family Trust, 2024
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