monoʻi

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *manoŋi (compare with Samoan manogi, Tongan manongi both “fragrant”),[1]

Noun

monoʻi

  1. perfume, fragrance

Descendants

  • → French: monoï
  • → English: monoi

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “manogi”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
  • “monoʻi” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
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