uaua

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *uaua (“tendon, vein” – compare with Maori uaua, Tahitian uaua, Tongan uoua and Samoan uaua)^[1] reduplicating *ua (likely to avoid conflation with ua meaning “rain”) from Proto-Oceanic *uʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀat (“blood vessel, sinew, tendon” – compare with Malay urat “vein” and otot “muscle”, Cebuano ugat, Tagalog ugát).^[2][3]

• IPA^(key): /uˈau̯.a/, [uˈwɐw.wə], [uˈwɔw.wə] (rapid speech)

uaua

1. (stative) tough, sinewy, glutinous, viscid, leathery
2. (stative, figuratively) hardheaded, willful, obstinate, tough-minded

• hoʻouaua

• guagua, vaua (obsolete, Spanish orthography)
• wawa (Súlat Wáwâ)

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *wáqwaq (“mouth of a river”). Compare Tagalog wawa, Cebuano wawa, Aklanon wawa, Kankanaey wawa, Yami wawa (“sea”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwawəʔ/ [ˈwäː.wəʔ]
• Hyphenation: ua‧ua

uáuâ

1. saliva

   Synonyms: lura, dura

2. river mouth; river confluence; river estuary

   Synonym: alua

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wáqwaq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Forman, Michael L. (1971) “W”, in Kapampangan Dictionary‎^[2], University of Hawai'i Press, page 236
• Bergaño, Diego (1732) Vocabulario de la lengua pampanga en romance‎^[3], Ramirez y Giraudier, published 1860

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *uaua.

ùaùa

1. vein; tendon

• Edward Tregear (1899) A Dictionary of Mangareva (or Gambier Islands), Wellington: New Zealand Institute

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *uaua (“tendon, vein” – Tahitian uaua, Tongan uoua and Samoan uaua)^[1] reduplicating *ua (likely to avoid conflation with ua meaning “rain”) from Proto-Oceanic *uʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀat (“blood vessel, sinew, tendon” – compare with Malay urat “vein” and otot “muscle”, Cebuano ugat, Tagalog ugát).^[2][3]

• IPA^(key): /u.a.u.a/, [ʉ.ɐ.ʉ.ɐ]

uaua

1. blood vessel
   1. vein; artery

   Synonym: ua

2. sinew; tendon
3. muscle
4. difficulty; dilemma; problem; trouble

uaua

1. (stative) difficult; hard; demanding

uaua

1. strenuous; pertinacious

Reduplication of ua “backbone”.

uaua

1. firmness, resolution

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “uaua”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 545
• “uaua” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *uaua.

ûaûa

1. tendons; muscles

   hau ûaûa kio'e ― line made from rats' tendons

   ûaûa toto ― vein, artery

   ûaûa piki ― spasm

• Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN

From Proto-Polynesian *uaua.

uaua

1. vein; artery; gland; sinew; tendon; muscle; nerve
2. rubber tube; inner tube (of tyre)
3. toughness

uaua

1. (stative) sinewy; stringy; tough
2. (stative) elastic; flexible; adaptable

• “uaua” in Cook Islands Languages, 2016.

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *uaua.

uaua

1. thews and sinews
2. vein; artery
3. pulse

• George Pratt (1861) Samoan dictionary: English and Samoan and Samoan and English with a short grammar of the Samoan dialect, Matautu, Samoa: London Missionary Society Press

From Proto-Polynesian *uaua reduplicating *ua (likely to avoid conflation with ua meaning “rain”) from Proto-Oceanic *uʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀat (“blood vessel, sinew, tendon” – compare with Malay urat “vein” and otot “muscle”, Cebuano ugát, Tagalog ugát).^[1][2]

uaua

1. blood vessel
   1. vein; artery
2. sinew; tendon; ligament
3. rubber
   1. any flexible and hard filament, band or tube

      uaua pape: water hose

      uaua pereoʻo: tyre

• Sven Wahlroos (2002) English–Tahitian, Tahitian–English Dictionary, First edition, Honolulu: The Mā'ohi Heritage Press, →ISBN
• “uaua” in John Davies, A Tahitian and English dictionary, with introductory remarks on the Polynesian language, and a short grammar of the Tahitian dialect: with an appendix containing a list of foreign words used in the Tahitian Bible, in commerce, etc., with the sources from whence they have been derived, 1851.

From Proto-Polynesian *uaua.

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.a ˈu.a]
• Hyphenation: u‧a‧u‧a

uaua

1. sinew
2. tendon
3. blood vessel
4. thin wire (for fishing)
5. string (of a stringed instrument)

uaua

1. (intransitive, + i) to troll, fish (for)

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[4], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 41