mau

Etymology: Kuanua ‘ripe’, ‘cooked’; see Tryon (1995, part 2, pp. 634, 636).

See original Mihalic entry.

Modifier forms

1. Food crops: ripe, soft
   banana mau a ripe banana, a banana which can be eaten raw in contrast to those which must first be cooked
   i no mau yet it is not ripe yet

2. Sexual anatomy: newly mature ® popo
   susu i mau (a girl’s) breasts have newly formed

3. Trees: rotten
   diwai i mau pinis

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