roaʻa

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *rauka (compare with Māori roaka (“abundant”) and Hawaiian loaʻa (“to get, to acquire”)) from Proto-Polynesian *lawa-ka– compare with ravaʻi ("suffice") and roa (“very, entirely”). Also doublet of noaʻa[1]– see both Māori rehu and nehu for similar free variation of initial phonemes in related languages.

Verb

roaʻa

  1. to acquire, obtain
    Synonyms: noaʻa, hoʻo

References

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