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Where does “nui” come from?

nui (Rapa Nui) comes from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian nui — big.

nui (Rapa Nui): big, great

Definitions

  1. big, great

Ancestry of “nui”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Nuclear Polynesiannuibig
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