‘sugar palm’
source: entry from Holle List; unable to verify c. 1900 note: This Holle list item is likely the result of a miscommunication. The morphemes present are n- which is an explicative discussed in the grammar chapter of this volume followed by awa ‘farm field’ and nui ‘coconut’. I suspect the interviewer attempted to describe a sugar palm by pointing out a coconut palm and comparing what he meant to that and then indicated they are farmed in orchards, and the informant misunderstood him to be asking the term for a coconut orchard, which is extremely common in Sula. See also pe’i ‘sugar palm’ and kanou, also from Holle.