Snow in Austronesian languages

[Miriam Meyerhoff]

Cognate in Maori: huka

Same meanings, also 'foam, froth'.

Miriam

At 7:35 pm -1000 21/8/05, Piet Lincoln wrote:
>Chris,
>
>A few years back, a Bannoni friend wrote from Minnesota /Naniya, St. 
>Paul, gharau rorosa keta butsu./
>'Here in St Paul snow is falling'  Later that year, I had to explain 
>to his brother back in Bougainville what was meant by /gharau/   
>'rain' /rorosa/ 'dry'
>
>Hawaiian Dictionaries  have
>  /hau/  for 'snow'  and 'cold', 'cool', 'frost' ...  from PPN *sau 
>(Pukui & Elbert 1986:60)
>/hau/  'snow' 'ice' 'frost' 'dew'     (Andrews 2003: 125)
>
>Piet
>
>Christopher Sundita wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Does the word "snow" exists as a "native" (i.e., as opposed to borrowing) in
>>any Austronesian languages?  I imagine it must exist in some of the languages
>>of Taiwan.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>--Chris
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