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Where does “ono” come from?

Ono comes from Hawaiian ʻono, a word of unknown origin and meaning.

ono (English): good-tasting, delicious

Definitions

  1. good-tasting, delicious

Ancestry of “ono”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianonosix; sixth; wahoo
2Proto-Polynesianonosix
3Proto-Oceaniconomsix
4Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianonəmsix
5Turkishönemimportance
6Turkish-imFirst-person singular possessive suffix denoting...
7Ottoman Turkishمfirst-person singular possessive suffix;...
8Arabicمa prefix used to create nouns of place; a prefix...
9Proto-Semiticšamaʿ-—
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