ʻape

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ape"

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kape (compare with Rarotongan ʻape, Tongan kape).[1] Maybe related to ʻāpiʻi, another name for the Alocasia species meaning “curly”.

Noun

ʻape

  1. a large-leafed plant in the Araceae, related to taro, Alocasia macrorrhiza

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kape1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
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