Hawaiian ʻuku

← Proto-Austronesian *kuCu (inherited)

← Proto-Oceanic *kutu (inherited)

← Proto-Polynesian *kutu (inherited)

← Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu (inherited)

→ English ukulele (mention)

→ Biak yuk (mention)

→ German Ukulele (mention)

→ Esperanto ukulelo (mention)

→ Hawaiian ʻukulele (compound)

→ Hawaiian Creole uku (borrowed)

→ Marshallese uklele (mention)