Where does “hea” come from?

hea (Hawaiian) comes from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *fea.

hea (Hawaiian): mist; mist; to call, name

Definitions

  1. mist; mist; to call, name

Ancestry of “hea”, step by step

hea traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *fea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Nuclear Polynesian*fea—

via Proto-Polynesian *seqa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Polynesian*seqa—

Words derived from “hea”

Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *fea →