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Hawaiian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Polynesian *feke. Cognate with Maori wheke, Rapa Nui hehe, Samoan fe'e, Tongan feke.
Noun
heʻe
- octopus
Etymology 2
From Proto-Polynesian *seke (compare with Tongan heke (“slippery, to slide”); Tahitian heʻe and paheʻe (“to slide”); Maori heke (“to descend, to drip”)).
Verb
heʻe
- to slide, to surf, to slip, to flee
- to melt, to flow
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “seke.1a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
Tongan
Pronunciation
Noun
heʻe
- grasshopper.