toʻetoʻe

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Polynesian *toketoke, reduplicated form of *toke "cold, chilled". Cognate with Hawaiian koʻekoʻe (“cold”)

Adjective

toʻetoʻe

  1. cold

References

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