The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
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the largest of native forest trees (Acacia koa), with light-gray bark, crescent-shaped leaves, and white flowers in small, round heads; a legume with fine, red wood, a valuable timber tree, formerly used for canoes, surfboards, calabashes, now for furniture and ukuleles. A small koa was sometimes added to the hula altar to Laka, goddess of the hula, to make the dancer fearless.
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Hawaiian
koa
*teRas
heartwood of a tree, hard, durable core of wood; ironwood tree
[Etymon]
toRas
various hardwood trees; heartwood of a tree
Contribution:
CLDF dataset derived from Blust's "Austronesian Comparative Dictionary"
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Language:
Hawaiian
Parameter:
the largest of native forest trees (Acacia koa), with light-gray bark, crescent-shaped leaves, and white flowers in small, round heads; a legume with fine, red wood, a valuable timber tree, formerly used for canoes, surfboards, calabashes, now for furniture and ukuleles. A small koa was sometimes added to the hula altar to Laka, goddess of the hula, to make the dancer fearless. [ab1be3e99250a1f8cf4dddbb2054523f]
Source:
Pukui and Elbert 1971
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