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lehu

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Hawaiian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *refu,[1] from Proto-Central Pacific *dravu, from Proto-Oceanic *dapuʀ (“hearth”),[2] from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *dapuʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *dapuʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dapuʀ (“hearth”). Cognates include Māori rehu (“dust, mist”), rehurehu (“obscure, to set, to dim”), pungarehu (“ash”), nehu (“sea spray”), nehunehu (“dusky”), Tahitian rehu (“ash, grey colour”), rehurehu (“twilight”), Tongan efu (“dust, human remains”) and Samoan lefulefu.

Noun

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lehu

  1. ash (of colour and substance)
  2. grey

References

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  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “REFU.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
  2. ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2003), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[1], volume 2: The Physical Environment, Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 74–5
  • Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “lehu”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 199

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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lehu (Cyrillic spelling леху)

  1. accusative singular of leha
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