kanaka
Hawaiian
noun
Definitions
- human being
- subject, retainer
- a Hawaiian
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Polynesian *taŋata.
Origin
Proto-Polynesian
*taŋata
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Canuck English
- Canuckese English
- Canuckiana English
- Canuckistan English
- Canuckland English
- Canuxploitation English
- kanaka English
- Kanake German
- canaque French
- kaʻaka Hawaiian
- tangata Maori
- *taŋata Proto-Polynesian
- tangata Rapa Nui
- tagata Samoan
- tangata Tongan (Tonga Islands)
- taʻata Tahitian
- tagata Tuvaluan
- tagata Wallisian