kahua
Hawaiian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tafuqa (“platform; foundation, base”) (compare with Tahitian tahua and Māori tahua).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kahua
- foundation; base; platform (of a house)
- site; location; ground
- Synonym: mālaʻe
- arena; stand; stage
- background
- bed (as of a stream)
- (sports) court, field, pitch
- (film, television) set
- (Internet) website
Derived terms
[edit]- hoʻokahua (“establish”, verb)
- pono kahua (“prop”)
Verb
[edit]kahua(stative)
- basic, foundational
- based
- aʻo kahua lawena ― performance based learning
References
[edit]- ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “kahua”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 113
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tafuqa”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559