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Tahitian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *rauka (compare with Maori roaka (“abundant”) and Hawaiian loaʻa (“to get, to acquire”)) from Proto-Polynesian *lawa-ka– compare with ravaʻi ("suffice") and roa (“very, entirely”). Also doublet of noaʻa[1]– see both Maori rehu and nehu for similar free variation of initial phonemes in related languages.
Verb
roaʻa
- to acquire, obtain
- Synonyms: noaʻa, hoʻo
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “roaka”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
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