tatau
Maori
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Polynesian *tatau₃ – compare with Rarotongan tatau, Samoan tatau, Tongan tatau.[1][2] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
edittatau
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 484-8
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tatau.3”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-Polynesian *tau₃ (compare with Tahitian tatau) – could also be partial reduplication of tau (compare with Samoan tau “to count”).[1][2] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
edittatau (passive tatauria or tatauhia or tataungia)
Noun
edittatau
References
edit- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[2], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 484-8
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tau.3”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Etymology 3
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
edittatau
Noun
edittatau
Further reading
editRarotongan
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Polynesian *tatau₃.[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
edittatau
- to wring out (of a wet cloth, coconut meat)
Noun
edittatau
- special strainer from bundles of coconut fibre used to wring out milk from coconut meat
References
edit- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tatau.3”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Samoan
edit
Etymology 1
editFrom Proto-Polynesian *tatau₁ from Proto-Oceanic *sau₃ “flying fox wingbone”.
Noun
edittatau
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-Polynesian *tatau₃.[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
edittatau
References
edit- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tatau.3”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Tongan
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Polynesian *tatau₃[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
edittatau
References
edit- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tatau.3”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
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