Kava is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 18 anagrams from letters in kava (aakv).
1810-20; Polynesian (first recorded from Tonga Islands)
So, perhaps, the Samoans gave them the coolest of all drinks, kava; and they scored.
You have treated me as a chief and you have bought my kava bowl.
He did not reply to my question, but sipped his bowl of kava.
A native girl, called Liva, was sitting on the main hatch making a bowl of kava.
In a similar vein, kava kava, advertised as a natural anti-anxiety supplement, was taken off the market for causing liver failure.
“Give the kava to the rest,” said Akanga to the daughters of Miru.
Here they were entertained and invited to join in a kava feast.
He spends a long time in preparing his kava, and drinks it noisily.
kava and the siva are the Samoans' symbols of hospitality, from the lowest to the highest.
There would be much to eat, and there would be kava in plenty.