kehu

kehua (“to praise”) +‎ -u

• IPA^(key): /ˈkehu/,
• Rhymes: -ehu
• Syllabification^(key): ke‧hu

kehu

1. praise, commendation (favorable representation in words)

• “kehu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈkehuˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ehu
• Syllabification^(key): ke‧hu

kehu

1. inflection of kehua:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Derived from Proto-Polynesian *kefu (“light-coloured”) (compare with Hawaiian ʻehu (“reddish”), Tahitian ʻehu (“reddish, ginger”), Tongan kefu (“brownish”) and Samoan ʻefu (“reddish brown”))

kehu

1. reddish

• urukehu

• “kehu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.