Where does “ʻo” come from?

ʻo (Hawaiian) comes from Proto-Polynesian *koho, from Proto-Oceanic *kojom.

ʻo (Hawaiian): Placed at the beginning of nominative phrases to...

Definitions

  1. Placed at the beginning of nominative phrases to...

Ancestry of “ʻo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Polynesian*koho—
2Proto-Oceanic*kojom—

Words derived from “ʻo”

Every word from Proto-Oceanic *kojom →Every word from Proto-Polynesian *koho →