Dalo
/ˈdɑː.loʊ/noun
A taro plant or its edible tuber, especially in Fiji and other Pacific contexts.
Did you know?Dalo belongs to a widespread Oceanic naming network for taro, a plant central to Pacific food systems, mythology, ceremony, and survival.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Oceanic, c. 1500 BCE
Proto-Oceanic
*talo
“Taro, the edible root crop”
Early 1st millennium CE
Proto-Polynesian
*talo
“Taro”
Classical and modern Pacific languages
Austronesian
talo
“Taro or its corm, with related forms across Polynesia and Melanesia”
Modern Fijian
Fijian
dalo
“Taro”
20th Century–Modern English
English
dalo
“A taro plant or edible taro tuber, chiefly in Pacific contexts”