Where does “ʻike” come from?

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

ʻike (Hawaiian): sight

Definitions

  1. sight

Ancestry of “ʻike”, step by step

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

Words derived from “ʻike”

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