piʻina

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *pikinga. Cognate with Maori pikinga (“ascent”). By surface analysis, piʻi (“to climb”) +‎ -na (nominalizing suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piˈʔi.na/, [piˈʔi.nə]

Noun

piʻina

  1. climb, ascent

Further reading

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