kaukau

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Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

Related to chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English.

Noun

kaukau

  1. food

Verb

kaukau

  1. to eat
    Horse no kaukau cow kaukau, cow kaukau cow kaukau!
    Horses don't eat cows' food, cows eat cows' food!

Sursurunga

Etymology

Borrowed from Tok Pisin kaukau.

Noun

kaukau

  1. sweet potato

References

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Noun

kaukau (n class, plural kaukau)

  1. potato crisp, potato chip

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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Noun

kaukau

  1. potato or sweet potato
    • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎, →ISBN, page 433:
      Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
      After doing this, the two of them planted taro and bananas, and vegetables, pineapple, corn, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes as well.

Descendants

  • → Sursurunga: kaukau

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kau-kau. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻauʻau and Samoan 'au'au.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ka‧u‧ka‧u

Verb

kaukau

  1. (intransitive) to swim

References

  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 145

Tongan

Verb

kaukau

  1. to wash
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