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English word origin

Etymology of mauka

Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka (“landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland”).

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
adv

inland, towards the mountains.

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Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka (“landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland”).

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  • Borrowed-form mentionmaukahaw
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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
noun

The flowering Andean root vegetable Mirabilis expansa, which was important to the Incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level. · One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Aymara mauka (“mauka (Mirabilis expansa)”).

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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

  • Unspecified derivation mentionmaukaay
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