'ate

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qate. Cognates include Hawaiian ake and Maori ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔa.te/
• Hyphenation: a‧te

Noun

'ate

1. liver

References

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 205
• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎^[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 526