Where does “mana” come from?

mana (Maori) comes from Proto-Polynesian mana, from Proto-Oceanic mana.

Ancestry of “mana”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Polynesianmanapower
2Proto-Oceanicmana—

Words derived from “mana”

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