kahi

kahi ki (plural kahe ɗe)

1. African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis)

• Used in Pulaar.
• Used in Maasina Fulfulde.
• (see discussion)

• ɗaaleehi

• M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.
• D. Osborn, D. Dwyer, and J. Donohoe, A Fulfulde (Maasina)-English-French Lexicon: A Root-Based Compilation Drawn from Extant Sources Followed by English-Fulfulde and French-Fulfulde Listings, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.hi/, [ˈkɐ.hi]

From Proto-Polynesian *tasi, from Proto-Oceanic *tasa, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tasa, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tasa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *əsa, *asa.

kahi

1. one, single; some

From Proto-Polynesian *tasi (“scrape, shave, whittle”), from Proto-Oceanic *tajim (“sharpen to a point”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *Cazem (“sharp”).

kahi(transitive)

1. to cut longitudinally
2. to scrape
3. to shave, to plane
4. to rub, to stroke
5. to comb

• hoʻokahi (causative)
• kahikahi (reduplicated form)

kahi

1. comb
2. scraper

From ka + wahi.

kahi

1. the place

• Used without an article.