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Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *lafilafi (compare with Maori rahirahi (“thin”)) reduplicating *lafi (“paper mulbery cloth”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
lahilahi
- thinness, frailty, flimsiness
See also
References
- ^ Wilson, William H. (2012 December) “Whence the East Polynesians? Further Linguistic Evidence for a Northern Outlier Source”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 51, number 2, page 306