Where does “māhea” come from?

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

māhea (Hawaiian): to be hazy

Definitions

  1. to be hazy

Ancestry of “māhea”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianheamist; mist; to call, name
2Proto-Nuclear Polynesian*fea—

Words derived from “māhea”

Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *fea →Every word from Hawaiian hea →