Where does “fuāmoa” come from?

fuāmoa (Samoan) comes from Samoan moa, from Proto-Polynesian moa — fowl.

fuāmoa (Samoan): poultry egg, hen's egg

Definitions

  1. poultry egg, hen's egg

Ancestry of “fuāmoa”, step by step

fuāmoa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Samoan moa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Samoanmoachicken or similar fowl
2Proto-Polynesianmoafowl

via Samoan fua

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Samoanfuaegg; fruit
2Polynesian*fua—

Words derived from “fuāmoa”

Every word from Proto-Polynesian moa →Every word from Samoan moa →