hoʻo

See also: hoʻo-

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *soko₂ (“to exchange”); compare with Māori hoko (“to barter, to trade”) and Hawaiian hō (“to give, transfer, supply”)[1]

Verb

hoʻo

  1. to exchange, trade
    hoʻo mai: to buy, to purchase, to acquire
    hoʻo atu: to sell
    Synonyms: roaʻa, noaʻa

References

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

Further reading

  • Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
  • “hoʻo” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
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