puaʻahorofenua

Tahitian

Etymology

From puaʻa (“pig”) +‎ horo (“to run”) +‎ fenua (“land”) alotgether “pig dashing across land”.

Noun

puaʻahorofenua

1. horse

Descendants

• Tahitian: horofenua
  • Samoan: solofanua
• Tuamotuan: puarenua, puārehenua, pūakahorohenua

References

• Charpentier, Jean-Michel, François, Alexandre (2015) Atlas linguistique de la Polynésie française‎^[1], →ISBN, page 2046

Further reading

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “puaʻahorofenua” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.