ogo

[Benjamin Barrett]

A search on the Web shows that manauea is the Hawaiian word for ogo
and that ogo is from the Japanese ogonori.

Benjamin Barrett

> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of Mark Mandel

> I found a couple of common words that I thought
> might be useful to note (ogo and pupu/pupus are at the top of the
> list), but I would like to check and make sure they aren't already
> in dictionaries.
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>
> Whatever its source and meaning, "ogo" as such can't be
> Hawaiian: the
> language has no /g/, and no voiced obstruents at all. Its phonemic
> inventory is