ʻaka
See also: Appendix:Variations of "aka"
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *kata (“laugh”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʔa.ka/, [ˈʔɐ.kə]
Verb
ʻaka
Derived terms
- ʻaka hene (“to jeer”)
- hōʻaka (causative)
- hoʻomākeʻaka (“to cause laughter”)
Further reading
- ʻaka in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kata.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559