kaokao

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kao-kao (“rib, flank”) (compare with Hawaiian ʻaoʻao (“side, page of a book”), Tahitian ʻaoʻao (“rib”), Samoan ʻaoʻao (“armpit”) and Tongan kaokao).[1][2][3]

Noun

kaokao

  1. side, flank (of the body, hills and mountains, canoes, etc.)
  2. ribs

Adjective

kaokao

  1. sideways

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 124
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kao-kao”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ 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 147-8

Further reading

  • “kaokao” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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