Where does “ʻōmaʻo” come from?
ʻōmaʻo (Hawaiian) comes from Hawaiian maʻo, from Proto-Polynesian *mako, from Proto-Oceanic *maʀako.
Ancestry of “ʻōmaʻo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hawaiian | maʻo | — |
| 2 | Proto-Polynesian | *mako | — |
| 3 | Proto-Oceanic | *maʀako | — |