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Hawaiian
Prefix
pā-
- prefix to many bases, with general meaning of “in the nature of, having the quality of.”
- pā- + wela (“be hot”) → pāwela (“scorched”)
- pā- + heu (“fine hair, dust”) → pāheu (“allergy”)
- distributive prefix affixed to numbers
- pā- + lua (“two”) → pālua (“two-by-two, two-at-a-time, twofold”)
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