Etymograph

English

maloga bean

Maloga bean comes from Mayi-Thakurti malaka.

  1. Mayi-Thakurtimodernmalaka
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2006maloga bean

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mayi-Thakurtimodernmalaka
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2006maloga bean

Earliest quotation: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria: “[T]he silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland, decorated for…”

Today it means

noun The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Mayi-Thakurti malaka / maloga bean