why   
ahoana
how? What? Used in answering a call. Why? What is the cause of it? It is also an exclamation, as ahoana ary! Well then! It admits of the suffix pronouns and tenses: ny faty aza ahoako (I care not for, or I trouble not myself about death; death has no fear for me!) ~ ahoanao izany? (what is that to you?) [1.2]
why? how? [1.7]
nahoana
why? [1.7]