Where does “ohia” come from?
ohia (English) comes from Hawaiian ʻōhiʻa, from Proto-Polynesian *kafika, from Hawaiian Kapika, from Hawaiian Tabita, from Aramaic טביתא — gazelle; roe, doe.
ohia (English): Either of two flowering trees of the myrtle...
Definitions
- Either of two flowering trees of the myrtle...
Ancestry of “ohia”, step by step