Where does “hoʻokolohua” come from?

hoʻokolohua (Hawaiian) comes from Hawaiian hua, from Proto-Polynesian *fua, from Proto-Oceanic puaq, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian buaq, from Proto-Austronesian buaq — fruit.

hoʻokolohua (Hawaiian): experiment

Definitions

  1. experiment

Ancestry of “hoʻokolohua”, step by step

hoʻokolohua traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hawaiian hua

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianhuafruit; egg
2Proto-Polynesian*fua—
3Proto-Oceanicpuaq—
4Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian*buaq—
5Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian*buaq—
6Proto-Malayo-Polynesianbuaqfruit
7Proto-Austronesianbuaqfruit

via Hawaiian hoʻokolo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianhoʻokoloto make crawl
2Hawaiianhoʻo-forms causative verbs; forms verbs of pretense;...
Every word from Proto-Austronesian buaq →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian buaq →Every word from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *buaq →
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