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Finnish
Etymology 1
kehua (“to praise”) + -u
Pronunciation
Noun
kehu
- praise, commendation (favorable representation in words)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
kehu
- inflection of kehua:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Maori
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Polynesian *kefu (“light-coloured”) (compare with Hawaiian ʻehu (“reddish”), Tahitian ʻehu (“reddish, ginger”), Tongan kefu (“brownish”) and Samoan ʻefu (“reddish brown”))[1][2][3]
Adjective
kehu
- reddish
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 123
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kefu”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Branstetter, Katherine B. (1977 January) “A Reconstruction of Proto-Polynesian Color Terminology”, in Anthropological Linguistics, volume 19, number 1, page 21
Further reading
- “kehu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Mokilese
Noun
kehu
- mast
References