heʻe

See also: he'e, hē'e, hee, Hee, and hée

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhe.ʔe/, [ˈhɛ.ʔɛ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *feke. Cognate with Maori wheke, Rapa Nui hehe, Samoan fe'e, Tongan feke.

Noun

heʻe

  1. octopus

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *seke (compare with Tongan heke (“slippery, to slide”); Tahitian heʻe and paheʻe (“to slide”); Maori heke (“to descend, to drip”)).[1]

Verb

heʻe

  1. to slide, to surf, to slip, to flee
  2. to melt, to flow
Derived terms

References

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

Tongan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /he.ʔe/

Noun

heʻe

  1. grasshopper.
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