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Where does “moa” come from?

moa (Hawaiian) comes from Proto-Polynesian moa — fowl.

moa (Hawaiian): chicken or similar fowl

Definitions

  1. chicken or similar fowl

Ancestry of “moa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Polynesianmoafowl
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