Rapa Nui edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

pātia

  1. spear

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • 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