Etymology

Moana

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Today it means: A unisex given name from Polynesian. Full definition →

Hawaiian Moana ← Māori moana
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The story

  1. Māori · derived frommoana
  2. Hawaiian · borrowed fromMoana“sea, ocean”
  3. English todayMoana

From Hawaiian Moana (“sea, ocean”), Māori moana, and other Polynesian languages.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.