hohoʻa

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fofoŋa – compare with Tongan fofonga and Samoan fofoga.[1]

Noun

hohoʻa

  1. face
    Synonyms: aro, mata
  2. appearance, look
  3. image, photo, portrait, picture
  4. plan, blueprint

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fofoga”, 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
  • “hohoʻa” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
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