hohoʻa
Tahitian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *fofoŋa – compare with Tongan fofonga and Samoan fofoga.[1]
Noun
[edit]hohoʻa
References
[edit]- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fofoga”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Further reading
[edit]- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “hohoʻa” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.