tāhuhu
Maori
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Oceanic *taqo-fufu (compare with Tongan toʻufufu)[1] affixing *fufu from Proto-Oceanic *pupuŋan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubuŋ (“ridge of roof, mountain” – compare with Malay bumbung, Tagalog bubóng, Ilocano bobóng all “roof”).[2][3] Also reanalyzable as tā “stalk” + huhu.
Noun
edittāhuhu
- ridgepole
- horizontal beam supporting a kite's wings
- lineage
- tāhuhu kōrero: history
- tāhuhu tangata: curriculum vitae, résumé
Adjective
edittāhuhu
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 444-5
- ^ See “taqufufu”, “taqo.2b” in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011).
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 53-4
Further reading
edit- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tāhū, tāhuhu, tāuhu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 420
- “tāhuhu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.