Where does “akepa” come from?

akepa (English) comes from Hawaiian ʻākepa, from Hawaiian ʻā-, from Hawaiian ʻō- — simulative prefix.

akepa (English): A bird in the Hawaiian honeycreeper genus, Loxops coccineus

Definitions

  1. A bird in the Hawaiian honeycreeper genus, Loxops coccineus

Ancestry of “akepa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1HawaiianʻākepaHawaiʻi ʻākepa (Loxops coccineus)
2Hawaiianʻā-simulative prefix, -like; -ish
3Hawaiianʻō-simulative prefix
Every word from Hawaiian ʻō- →Every word from Hawaiian ʻā- →Every word from Hawaiian ʻākepa →