faʻaipoipo
Tahitian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From faʻa (“causative prefix”) + ipoipo (“reduplication of ipo (a lover)”). Cognates include Tuamotuan hakaipoipo, Austral haʻaipoipo, Rarotongan ʻakaipoipo, Samoan faʻaipoipo, Tuvaluan fakaipoipo, Maori whakaipo (“to tend with affection, cherish, court, woo, pet, coax”), Hawaiian hoʻoipo (“to make love, court, woo”).[1]
Noun
[edit]faʻaipoipo (Raapoto spelling faaipoipo)
- to marry
References
[edit]- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “faka-ipo-ipo”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
Further reading
[edit]- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “faʻaipoipo” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.