Where does “maʻo” come from?

maʻo (Hawaiian) comes from Proto-Polynesian *mako, from Proto-Oceanic *maʀako.

maʻo (Hawaiian): green

Definitions

  1. green

Ancestry of “maʻo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Polynesian*mako—
2Proto-Oceanic*maʀako—

Words derived from “maʻo”

Every word from Proto-Oceanic *maʀako →Every word from Proto-Polynesian *mako →