pātia

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *pa-tia. Cognates include Tahitian pātia and Maori pātia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.ˈti.a/
• Hyphenation: pā‧ti‧a

Noun

pātia

1. spear

Derived terms

• manupātia
• pātia ika
• pātia kai

 

References

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 180
• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎^[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 200