Where does “keʻena” come from?

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

keʻena (Hawaiian): nook, corner

Definitions

  1. nook, corner

Ancestry of “keʻena”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiian-naCommon nominalizing suffix, sometimes with...
2Proto-Polynesian-ŋa—
Every word from Proto-Polynesian -ŋa →Every word from Hawaiian -na →