The story
- Unami · borrowed fromTànkinakwsi
- English todayTonganoxie
Borrowed from Unami Tànkinakwsi (given name), from tànkinakwsi anim (“to look short, to seem small”), from tànk- (“short, small”) + -inakwsi (“to look like”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.