kakau

See also: kākau

Atakapa

Alternative forms

  • kaukau

Noun

kakau

  1. water
  2. river

Verb

kakau

  1. to rain

References

  • John Reed Swanton, A Structural and Lexical Comparison of the Tunica, Chitimacha and Atakapa languages (1919): kákaū
  • Gatschet and Swanton, A Dictionary of the Atakapa Language (1932)

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *ka-kau (compare with Tongan kakau, Samoan ʻaʻau) reduplication of *kau₂ from Proto-Oceanic *kaRu.[1][2] Doublet of kau.

Verb

kakau

  1. (archaic) to swim
    Synonym: kau

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kau.1”, 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 (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 405-6

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

kakau

  1. stalk (of a plant)
  2. handle (of a tool)

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kakau”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 123
  • “kakau” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Swahili

Noun

kakau class IX (plural kakau class X)

  1. alternative form of kakao (“cocoa”)

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?], compare Maori kau.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ka.u/

Verb

kakau

  1. to swim

Tuvaluan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?], compare Maori kau.

Verb

kakau

  1. to swim
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