Etymology

Savai'i

Today it means: The largest island in Samoa. Full definition →

Samoan Savai'i ← Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki
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The story

  1. Proto-Nuclear Polynesian · derived from*Sawaiki
  2. Samoan · borrowed fromSavai'i
  3. English todaySavai'i

From Samoan Savai'i, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki. Doublet of Hawaii and Hawaiki.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Nuclear Polynesian*Sawaiki all →

HawaiiHawaiki

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