ʻopihi

Hawaiian

Etymology

Ulimately from Proto-Polynesian *pisi₂.[1] Sense of button a native innovation attested in Archibald Campbell's 1809 wordlist (as opeehii)[2]

Noun

ʻopihi

  1. limpet
  2. button
    Synonym: pihi

Descendants

  • Hawaiian: pihi

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pisi.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Schütz, Albert J. (1994) The voices of Eden: a history of Hawaiian language studies, →ISBN, pages 190-1
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