kokomo

See also: Kokomo

English

Noun

kokomo (plural kokomos)

  1. Synonym of Blyth's hornbill.

Hawaiian

Etymology

Partial reduplication of komo (“to enter”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈko.mo/

Verb

kokomo

  1. (transitive) to penetrate

Further reading

Maori

Etymology

Partial reduplication of komo (“to insert”) from Proto-Polynesian *komo₁ (compare with Hawaiian ʻomo (“lid, cover”)).[1]

Verb

kokomo

  1. to wear, to put on something

Noun

kokomo

  1. shirt

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “komo.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • Tent, Jan, Geraghty, Paul (2003) Borrowing: a Pacific perspective, The Australian National University, →ISBN, page 151
  • “kokomo” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Tok Pisin

Noun

kokomo

  1. hornbill
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