louʻulu

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lau-qulu.[1] By surface analysis, lou +‎ ʻulu. Compare Hawaiian lauoho and Tahitian rouru.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lo.u.ʔu.lu/

Noun

louʻulu

  1. hair

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “lau-qulu”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  • Churchward, C. Maxwell (1959), Tongan dictionary: Tongan-English and English-Tongan, →OCLC, page 306
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