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tiki

See also: Tiki

English

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Modern male tiki, located at the entry of the Papuakeikaha Arboretum, island of Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

Etymology

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Borrowed from Maori tiki (“figurine”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tiki (plural tikis)

  1. Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.

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Asi

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Noun

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tiki

  1. house lizard

Cebuano

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ti‧ki

Noun

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tiki

  1. the common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
  2. (by extension) a gecko; any lizard of the family Gekkonidae

Chuukese

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Verb

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tiki

  1. (transitive) to poke, to press
  2. to put a dot on

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From tiko +‎ -i.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtiki]
  • Rhymes: -iki
  • Hyphenation: ti‧ki

Verb

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tiki (present tikas, past tikis, future tikos, conditional tikus, volitive tiku)

  1. to tic

Hiligaynon

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tikˈkiʔ/, /tikˈkɛʔ/

Noun

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tiki

  1. common house gecko

Maori

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Polynesian *tiki (compare with Tahitian tiʻi and Hawaiian kiʻi).[1][2]

Noun

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tiki

  1. figurine, carved figure
Descendants
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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tiki

  1. to fetch, to get

Etymology 3

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Verb

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tiki

  1. to fail

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 510
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tiki.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

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  • “tiki” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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tiki f

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of tik

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Dutch een tikje.

Pronoun

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tiki

  1. few
  2. a bit

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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From English stick.

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Noun

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tiki

  1. stick, rod

Swahili

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English tick.

Noun

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tiki (n class, plural tiki)

  1. tick mark, check mark (✓)

Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

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tiki

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) completely (in the context of tiredness)

Swazi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English tickey.

Noun

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tíki class 1a (plural bótíki class 2a)

  1. tickey

Inflection

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Ternate

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tiki

  1. (transitive) to cane someone

Conjugation

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Conjugation of tiki
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totiki fotiki mitiki
2nd notiki nitiki
3rd Masculine otiki itiki, yotiki†
Feminine motiki
Neuter itiki
† - archaic

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yámana

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Verb

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tiki

  1. to see
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