Where does “moa” come from?

moa (Italian) comes from English moa, from Maori moa, from Proto-Polynesian moa — fowl.

moa (Italian): moa

Definitions

  1. moa

Ancestry of “moa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmoaAny of several species of large, extinct,...
2Maorimoamoa a bird
3Proto-Polynesianmoafowl
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