Where does “kuʻina” come from?

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

kuʻina (Hawaiian): punch, blow

Definitions

  1. punch, blow

Ancestry of “kuʻina”, step by step

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