kawakawa

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori kawakawa.

Noun

kawakawa (countable and uncountable, plural kawakawas)

  1. Alternative form of kiwikiwi (star fern) (Blechnum fluviatie)
  2. A false albacore, a fish of species Euthynnus affinis.
  3. Piper excelsum (syn. Macropiper excelsum), a shrub endemic to New Zealand.

Translations

Maori

Etymology

From its supposed resemblance to Proto-Polynesian *kawa (bitter ginger; bitter; kava), duplicated to indicate similarity (thus, cognate with Hawaiian ʻawa, Tongan kava and Samoan ʻava).[1][2] Further derived from Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ (potent root) metathesis of Proto-Oceanic *wakaʀ (root), thus doublet of aka (root).

Noun

kawakawa

  1. kawakawa (Piper excelsum), a shrub endemic to New Zealand.

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 139
  2. ^ “Kawa, Kawakawa”, in Te Māra Reo, Benson Family Trust, 2023

Maranao

Noun

kawakawa

  1. loose soil