piʻo

See also: Pio, PIO, pío, pió, Pío, and pio-

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *piko (cognate with Maori piko “bent, curved; bend, curve, corner”, Rarotongan piko, Tahitian piʻo “crooked, bent, to incline facing up”, Tongan piko, plus Samoan piʻo and piʻopiʻo “crooked, meandering, corrupting”),[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biŋkuk (“curved, bent” — compare with Malay bengkok)[2]

Noun

piʻo

  1. bend, curve, arc

Verb

piʻo

  1. (intransitive) to arch (of a rainbow)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “piʻo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 331
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “piko.a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *piko (compare with Maori piko “bent, curved; bend, curve, corner” and Tongan piko) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biŋkuk (“curved, bent” — compare with Malay bengkok)[1]

Verb

piʻo

  1. bend, curve

Derived terms

References

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