piʻopiʻo

Samoan

Etymology

Reduplication of piʻo from Proto-Polynesian *piko (cognate with Hawaiian piʻo “bend, curve, arc”, Maori piko “bent, curved; bend, curve, corner”, Rarotongan piko, Tahitian piʻo “crooked, bent, to incline facing up”, Tongan piko) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *beŋkok (“curve, bend, winding” — compare with Malay bengkok)[1]

Adjective

piʻopiʻo

  1. crooked
  2. meandering (of rivers etc)
  3. wrong, devious, perverse
  4. corrupting
  • piʻoga

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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