Where does “Pōʻaono” come from?

Pōʻaono (Hawaiian) comes from Hawaiian ʻaono, from Hawaiian ono, from Proto-Polynesian ono, from Proto-Oceanic onom, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian onəm, from Turkish önem, from Turkish -im, from Ottoman Turkish م.

Pōʻaono (Hawaiian): Saturday

Definitions

  1. Saturday

Ancestry of “Pōʻaono”, step by step

Pōʻaono traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hawaiian ʻaono

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianʻaonosix
2Hawaiianonosix; sixth; wahoo
3Proto-Polynesianonosix
4Proto-Oceaniconomsix
5Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianonəmsix
6Turkishönemimportance
7Turkish-imFirst-person singular possessive suffix denoting...
8Ottoman Turkishمfirst-person singular possessive suffix;...
9Arabicمa prefix used to create nouns of place; a prefix...
10Proto-Semiticšamaʿ-

via Hawaiian

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiiannight
2Proto-Polynesian*po
3Proto-Oceanicboŋi
4Proto-Austronesianbəʀŋi
Every word from Proto-Semitic šamaʿ-Every word from Arabic مEvery word from Turkish -im
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