ekeuna

North Marquesan

Etymology

From eke (“to mount”).[1] Attested as hekkeuna in An Essay Towards a Dictionary and Grammar of the Lesser-Australian Language, According to the Dialect Used at the Marquesas (1799) by William Pascoe Crook, Samuel Greatheed and Tima'u Te'ite'i.[2]

Noun

ekeuna

  1. horse

References
  1. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “heke”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  2. Millerstrom, Sidsel, Rogers, Richard W (2005 October) “Sailing ship and dog-poni: Historic petroglyphs on Nuku Hiva, the Marquesas Islands”, in Rapa Nui Journal‎, volume 19, number 2, pages 120-6
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