pulaka

Questions

What does pulaka mean?

Cyrtosperma merkusii, a crop grown in the South Pacific.

Where does pulaka come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Austronesian *biRaq Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biRaq Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *biRaq Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *biRaq Proto-Oceanic *piʀaq Proto-Polynesian [Term?] Proto-Nuclear Polynesian [Term?] Tuvaluan pulakabor. English pulaka Borrowed from Tuvaluan pulaka.

How to pronounce pulaka

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