Where does “pāheahea” come from?

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

pāheahea (Hawaiian): to call (especially to invite to eat)

Definitions

  1. to call (especially to invite to eat)

Ancestry of “pāheahea”, step by step

pāheahea traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hawaiian heahea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianheaheato welcome
2Hawaiianheamist; mist; to call, name
3Proto-Nuclear Polynesian*fea—

via Proto-Indo-European pā-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanpā-off, of
Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *fea →Every word from Hawaiian hea →Every word from Hawaiian heahea →