From Proto-Polynesian *lipi (compare with Hawaiian lipi (“adze, edge”), Tongan lipi (“blade, flange”).[1] [2] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
ripi
- to cut, to slice, to gash
- Synonym: hori
- to skim or glide or ricochet off the water surface
ripi
- any long-bladed tool
- special tool with long, oval blade used to pry out pāua from rocks
- a type of chisel to carve long grooves on wood
- discus, flat plate thrown as sport
- stone skipping, ducks and drakes
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 417
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “lipi.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “ripi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 398
- “ripi” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.