Re: lai ong, lai ong, mali mali ong
Thanks Gabe, although I'm not trying to determine synonyms -- just trying to learn reasonable translations of the names. One amusing fact about plant cultivars is that as they are refined, a qualifier is added -- often in a different language. So we have multi-word plant names with each word from a different language!
Klue sangkivo:
Klue = an indo-chinese UK-colonial transliteration of "Thai banana"; i.e., how peoples external to the Thai region referred to banana from Thai.
sang = "to" and sometimes "from".
Kivo = a namesake from Burma
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