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