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moa

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• Sino-Austronesian

  • Austronesian *manuk bird

    • Malayo-Polynesian

      • Bajau memanuk bird
      • Javanese manuk bird
      • Malayic *manuk

        • Malay manuk bird, chicken
      • Philippine

        • Tagalog manók chicken
      • Oceanic

        • Micronesian

          • Chuukese machang bird
          • Kiribati man bird
        • Polynesian *manu bird

          • Tongan manupuna bird
          • Nuclear Polynesian

            • Samoan manu bird
            • Eastern Polynesian

              • Rapa Nui manu bird
              • Marquesic

                • Hawaiʻian manu (flying) bird
              • Tahitic

                • Tahitian manu bird
                • Māori manu bird, esteemed person
        • Polynesian *moa fowl, chicken ^[1]

          • Tongan moa chicken
          • Nuclear Polynesian

            • Samoan moa chicken, fowl
            • Eastern Polynesian

              • Rapa Nui moa chicken
              • Marquesic

                • Hawaiʻian moa chicken, fowl
              • Tahitic

                • Māori moa moa

                  • English moa
      • Hmong *m-nɔŋᶜ

        • White Hmong noog
      • Mien *nɔkᴰ

        • Iu Mien norqc bird
  • Hmong-Mien *m-nɔk bird
  • Tai *C̬.nokᴰ bird

    • Northern Tai

      • Zhuang roeg bird
    • Southwestern Tai

      • Lao ນົກ nok bird
      • Thai นก nók bird
  • Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋak

    • Tibeto-Burman

      • Burmese ငှက် hngak bird
    • Old Chinese 鸟 *nɯːwʔ bird

      • Middle Chinese 鳥 neuχ bird

        • Mandarin 鳥 niǎo bird
        • Cantonese 鳥 niu⁵ bird
      • Min

        • Taiwanese 鳥 niáu bird
  • Khmeric *man chicken presumed borrowing from one of the others

    • Khmer មាន់ mŏən chicken

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Collected English words

moa

Footnotes

1. ^

   Possible derivative of manu, or maybe a doublet via supplemental borrowing from a related language, at the time of the introduction of domestic fowl.