kohe

From koht +‎ -e.

kohe (not comparable)

1. at once, immediately, right away

   Mine kohe poodi! ― Go to the store at once!

2. right, in the immediate distance of

   Kuur on kohe selle puu taga. ― The barn is right behind that tree.

3. (figuratively) soon, in a minute

   Rahune maha, ma kohe tulen. ― Calm down, I'll be there soon. (literally, “I'm coming right away”, but this is most likely not the intention of the speaker)

From Proto-Polynesian *tofe (“that which is grooved, as buttocks, vagina, bilge of canoe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.he/

kohe

1. crease, groove
2. (construction) mortise
3. (anatomy) vagina

• hoʻokohe (“crease”, verb)
• kohe lemu (“taint”)

• kohe in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tofe.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

kohe

1. yes

• This term is used in both women's and men's speech.

• Michael Dunn, Gender determined dialect variation, in The Expression of Gender (edited by Greville G. Corbett)

From Proto-Polynesian *kofe (cognate with Rarotongan ko'e, Samoan ʻofe, Hawaiian ʻohe).^[1] Sense of tree comes from similarity of thick stems and leaflet bases to bamboo fronds displacing the original meaning.

kohe

1. synonym of kohekohe
2. (archaic, obsolete) bamboo

   Synonym: inanga

• kohekohe (by reduplication)

• Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 155

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *kofekofe “Melanthera biflora” due to its similar yellow flowers.^[1]

kohe

1. Passiflora tetrandra, a kind of passionfruit endemic to New Zealand.

   Synonyms: kōhia, kāhia

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kohe”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 146
• “kohe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

kohe

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