noaʻa
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Tahitian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *rauka (compare with Maori roaka (“abundant”) and Hawaiian loaʻa (“to get, to acquire”)) from Proto-Polynesian *lawa-ka– compare with ravaʻi ("rich, sufficient") and roa (“very, entirely”). Also doublet of roaʻa,[1] see both Maori rehu and nehu for similar free variation of initial phonemes in related languages.
Verb
[edit]noaʻa
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “noaʻa” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.