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It has been suggested that this kind of lava was named by the first Hawaiian who tried to walk across it barefoot :-)
In any case, this is a foreign borrowed word.
Quite a lot of English is haphazardly borrowed together. But my main point was that a lot of the list of two letter words in the Oxford dictionary doesn't look like "real English words".