Where does “pāheu” come from?

pāheu (Hawaiian) comes from Proto-Indo-European pā- — off, of.

pāheu (Hawaiian): allergy

Definitions

  1. allergy

Ancestry of “pāheu”, step by step

pāheu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European pā-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanpā-off, of

via Hawaiian heu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianheudown, fuzz

Words derived from “pāheu

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pā-