hoʻouahi

Hawaiian

Etymology

From hoʻo- +‎ uahi (“smoke”) – compare with Maori whakaauahi related to whakaauau derived from Proto-Polynesian *faka-qasu (compare with Tongan fakaʻahu and Samoan fāʻasu), from Proto-Oceanic *paka-qasu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paka-qasu (compare with Cebuano paaso, Tagalog paasuhan) affixed of *qasu (compare with Cebuano aso, Tagalog aso)[1][2]

Verb

hoʻouahi

  1. to smoke or fumigate something

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “qahu.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 158
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