Talk:Falema'i
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what does falema mean in english
- Falema'i means "hospital":
- So "falema'i" means "house of the sick" or "house of illness".
- Cognates include Hawaiian "hale ma'i", Tahitian "fare ma'i", and possibly Tongan "fale mahaki" (depends on whether or not "mahaki" is cognate with "ma'i", I doubt it). PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:12, 15 Tesema 2012 (UTC)
- ma'i is from Proto-Polynesian *maki (probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *masaki?). Tongan "mahaki" is also from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *masaki. PiRSquared17 (talk) 06:40, 26 Tesema 2012 (UTC)