•fibre, filament, thread, fiber (a single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread) · textile fibers (natural or synthetic material used for textile production) · fiber, fiber mass
fibre/fiber (single elongated piece of stringy material) · ellipsis of valokuitu (“optical fibre”) · thread (that consists of one filament or fibre; compare lanka)
clothlike sheath on the bottom of a coconut leaf frond · fiber from a coconut husk · cloth
köken: From Proto-Oceanic *kaka (“young coconut frond; coconut leaf sheath”) – compare with Māori kaka, Rarotongan kaka, Tahitian ʻaʻa, and Samoan ʻaʻa. For sense of cloth and bag, see also parallel in Malay kain meaning both “fabric, cloth” and “clothing”.