Etymology

lomilomi

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Today it means: A traditional form of Hawaiian massage. Full definition →

Hawaiian lomilomi
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The story

  1. Hawaiian · borrowed fromlomilomi
  2. English todaylomilomi

From Hawaiian lomilomi, reduplication of lomi (“to rub with the hand”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.