Where does “pāʻumi” come from?

pāʻumi (Hawaiian) comes from Hawaiian ʻumi, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *kumi.

pāʻumi (Hawaiian): ten times, ten at a time, by tens, etc

Definitions

  1. ten times, ten at a time, by tens, etc

Ancestry of “pāʻumi”, step by step

pāʻumi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hawaiian ʻumi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianʻumiten, tenth
2Proto-Nuclear Polynesian*kumi—

via Proto-Indo-European pā-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanpā-off, of
Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *kumi →