English
lehua
Lehua comes from Hawaiian lehua.
- Hawaiianmodernlehua
- Englishearliest quotation 1910same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Hawaiianmodernlehua
- Englishearliest quotation 1910same form
Earliest quotation: 1910, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist: “Here were the three tents overshadowed by the great…”
Every English word from Hawaiian lehua
Today it means
noun The flower or wood of a Polynesian tree (Metrosideros collina); the tree itself.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hawaiian lehua / lehua