Where does “ʻauina” come from?

ʻauina (Hawaiian) comes from Hawaiian -na, from Proto-Polynesian -ŋa.

ʻauina (Hawaiian): slope, decline, descent

Definitions

  1. slope, decline, descent

Ancestry of “ʻauina”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiian-naCommon nominalizing suffix, sometimes with...
2Proto-Polynesian-ŋa—

Words derived from “ʻauina”

Every word from Proto-Polynesian -ŋa →Every word from Hawaiian -na →