Where does “pāʻele” come from?

pāʻele (Hawaiian) comes from Hawaiian ʻele, from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *kele.

pāʻele (Hawaiian): to blacken, to blot, to paint black

Definitions

  1. to blacken, to blot, to paint black

Ancestry of “pāʻele”, step by step

pāʻele traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hawaiian ʻele

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianʻeledark, black
2Proto-Eastern Polynesian*kele—

via Proto-Indo-European pā-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanpā-off, of
Every word from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *kele →Every word from Hawaiian ʻele →
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