| OC |
| Hawaiian |
hoa-hoa |
tapa beater, washing stick |
|
hoa |
to strike with a stick or club; to club; a club |
| Nukuoro |
h-hoa |
crack open; break into pieces; cut a hole in |
|
hoa lalo |
anvil or other hard object (such as a stone) on which something can be struck hard; mortar stone |
| Toqabaqita |
a-bota |
of an egg: hatch; of a state of affairs: happen, occur, take place |
| Tuvaluan |
fo-foa |
to hatch (of eggs), break the hymen and hence be first to have intercourse with a virgin |
|
faka-foa |
a boil; be big (of waves) |
|
foa |
break (a nut, head, canoe, etc.) |
| Kwaio |
a-bota |
open; hatched, of eggs; smashed; break making big noise |
|
bo-bota |
rubbish heap |
|
bota-niu-ŋa |
ritual breaking open of coconut |
| Nggela |
posa |
break, of a boil; burst, of a football |
| 'Āre'āre |
apota |
egg |
| Sa'a |
pota niu |
to crack coconuts |
| Ulawa |
pota-a |
rubbish heap; refuse; dung |
| Sa'a |
pota |
to break by knocking one thing against another |
| Arosi |
bota |
break by knocking on something else, as an egg on bamboo |
| Rennellese |
hoa |
to crack, as nuts of (Terminalia) or (Barringtonia) trees; to cut or lacerate the forehead, as with axe, stone, or knife in mourning; to break or hatch, as an egg; to bump, as the head; to smash; to drive fish into a seine, as by beating the sea with sticks or by throwing stones |
|
hoa-ʔaki |
to split, as wood |
| Samoan |
foa |
break (rock or shell); hatch, of eggs |
|
faʔa-foa |
(of a boil) come up, form |
| Wayan |
voca |
be run aground by force; be wrecked in this way |
|
voca-voca |
be damaged, etc. |
| Fijian |
voca |
to be wrecked on a reef, of a canoe (stronger than to run aground, of a canoe) |
| Tongan |
foa |
to break (a cup, stone, rock, etc., not a stick); to cut (ripe coconut) in halves |
|
foa-ʔi |
to break |
|
fō-foa-ʔi |
to hatch (of eggs or chicks) |