Etymology

akepa

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Today it means: A bird in the Hawaiian honeycreeper genus, Loxops coccineus. Full definition →

Hawaiian ʻākepa ← Proto-Polynesian *tepa
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The story

  1. Hawaiianʻā-
  2. Proto-Polynesian*tepa
  3. Hawaiiankepa
  4. Hawaiianʻākepa
  5. English todayakepa

Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻākepa.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.