kaukau
Hawaiian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Related to chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English.
Noun edit
kaukau
Verb edit
kaukau
- to eat
- Horse no kaukau cow kaukau, cow kaukau cow kaukau!
- Horses don't eat cows' food, cows eat cows' food!
Sursurunga edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Tok Pisin kaukau.
Noun edit
kaukau
References edit
- Sálán má Worwor Talas uri tan Kuir Wor Sursurunga[1], Papua New Guinea: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2018, page 295
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
kaukau (n class, plural kaukau)
Tok Pisin edit
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
kaukau
- potato or sweet potato
- 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics[2], →ISBN, page 433:
- Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
- After doing this, the two of them planted taro and bananas, and vegetables, pineapple, corn, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes as well.
Descendants edit
- → Sursurunga: kaukau
Tokelauan edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Polynesian *kau-kau. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻauʻau and Samoan 'au'au.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
kaukau
- (intransitive) to swim
References edit
- R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary[3], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 145
Tongan edit
Verb edit
kaukau
- to wash