puaʻahorofenua

== Tahitian == === Etymology === From puaʻa (“pig”) +‎ horo (“to run”) +‎ fenua (“land”) altogether “pig dashing across land”. === Noun === puaʻahorofenua horse ==== Descendants ==== Tahitian: horofenua → Samoan: solofanua (calque) → Rarotongan: ʻoroʻenua (calque) Tuamotuan: puarenua, puārehenua, pūakahorohenua === References === Charpentier, Jean-Michel; François, Alexandre (2015), Atlas linguistique de la Polynésie française — Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia, →ISBN, page 2046. === Further reading === Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN “puaʻahorofenua” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.