The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Value aan

Language:
Chuukese
Parameter:
road, street, path, way, route, course (at sea); approach (to a job or problem); method, way (of doing); line of reckoning (in genealogies); Milky Way (short for , lit. path of breadfruit, because on this heavenly path the breadfruit comes from its southern homeland when summoned by the , the breadfruit summoner who performs the ritual to induce the spirit of the breadfruit to come each year from its southern homeland to Truk and ensure a good breadfruit harvest) [996bda5e09b15b4cd7d8929d4f58b6bc]
References
Goodenough and Sugita 1980