Where does “ʻalo” come from?

ʻalo (Hawaiian) comes from Proto-Polynesian *kalo, from Proto-Oceanic *karut.

ʻalo (Hawaiian): to dodge, to evade

Definitions

  1. to dodge, to evade

Ancestry of “ʻalo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Polynesian*kalo—
2Proto-Oceanic*karut—

Words derived from “ʻalo”

Every word from Proto-Oceanic *karut →Every word from Proto-Polynesian *kalo →