nyânâto

Äiwoo

Etymology

From nyâ- (“prefix found in tree names”) + Proto-Reefs-Santa Cruz *na tto, from earlier *na totoq, from Proto-Oceanic *na dotoq.

Noun

nyânâto

1. milky mangrove

References

• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.