Protoform: QUMAGA [AN] Garden: *(q)umaga

Description: Garden: *(q)umaga
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to AN: Austronesian
Notes:

*4 POC *quma “garden; clear land for garden” (Grace 1969) (LPO I:117)
*6 PAN *qumah "swidden; work a swidden" (ACD)

Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
East Futuna Umaga Champ de taro sec (Mfr)
Rennellese ʔUmanga Garden as for yams or taro (Ebt)
Samoan Umaga Flourishing Problematic (Prt)
Takuu Uumana Special abilities or work associated with a particular family, group or gender (Mle)
Tikopia Umanga Arch. term for burial place of stranded cetaceans Problematic (Fth)
Tuvalu Umaga Pulaka pits, garden; also used for growing taro (Rby)
Vaeakau-Taumako Manga/a Place (n) Problematic (Hvn)
Vaeakau-Taumako Imanga, imonga Small area [Vaeakau Dialect] Problematic (Hvn)
West Futuna Umaga Seed, seedling, sprout, shoot (Dty)

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