ʻahuru

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *haŋafulu (compare with Hawaiian anahulu (“period of ten days”), Maori ngahuru (“ten”), Tongan hongofulu), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian sagavulu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puluq (compare with Malay puluh (“-ty”) and sepuluh (“ten”), Tagalog sampulo (“ten”)), from Proto-Austronesian *puluq.

Tahitian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ʻahuru

Numeral

ʻahuru

1. ten

   Synonym: hōʻē ʻahuru

2. -ty

Derived terms

• hōʻē ʻahuru
• piti ʻahuru

Further reading

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “ʻahuru” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.