Where does “kinipōpō” come from?
kinipōpō (Hawaiian) comes from Hawaiian kini, from English kin, from English fictionkin, from English fiction, from Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion, from Latin fictio, from Latin -tiō — limestone; chalk; the finish line.
kinipōpō (Hawaiian): ball
Definitions
- ball
Ancestry of “kinipōpō”, step by step
kinipōpō traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hawaiian kini
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawaiian | kini | gin |
| 2 | English | kin | Race; family; breed; kind; Persons of the same... |
| 3 | English | fictionkin | An individual whose personal identity is based in fiction of some kind: a fictional character, a fictional race or species, etc |
| 4 | English | fiction | Literary type using invented or imaginative... |
| 5 | Middle English | ficcioun | An invention or fabrication |
| 6 | Old French | ficcion | dissimulation, ruse, invention |
| 7 | Latin | fictio | fashioning, forming, formation; fiction |
| 8 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 9 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 10 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 11 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |