English
Maoli
Maoli comes from Hawaiian maoli ‘real, genuine’, and goes back to Proto-Oceanic *maqoli.
- Proto-Oceanicprehistoric (reconstructed)*maqoli‘true, real’reconstructed
- Proto-Polynesianprehistoric (reconstructed)*ma(a)qoli‘true, genuine, real’reconstructed
- Hawaiianmodernmaoli‘real, genuine’
- Englishearliest quotation 1889Maoli
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Oceanicprehistoric (reconstructed)*maqoli‘true, real’reconstructed
- Proto-Polynesianprehistoric (reconstructed)*ma(a)qoli‘true, genuine, real’reconstructed
- Hawaiianmodernmaoli‘real, genuine’
- Englishearliest quotation 1889Maoli
Earliest quotation: 1889, Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1890 - V: “In the recent effort of the Hawaiian Fruit and…”
The story
Senses 1 and 2 are borrowed from Hawaiian maoli.
Every English word from Proto-Oceanic *maqoli
Today it means
noun A native of the Polynesian people who settled Hawaii.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Oceanic *maqoli / Maoli