luʻu

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *ruku (compare with Māori ruku and Rarotongan ruku) from Proto-Oceanic *ruku “go under water, duck under sth., bow the head”.[1][2][3]

Verb

luʻu

  1. to dive, plunge or dip onself, to immerse
  2. to duck i.e. to lower one's head or body out of sight or under water

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “luʻu”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 216
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “ruku”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D.; Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (2016), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 406-7
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