ākau

See also: ʻākau

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *sakaʀu (“reef, shoal”) (compare with Tahitian aʻau (“coral reef”), Tongan hakau, Fijian cakau (“reef”))[1][2][3] Doublet of akau.

Noun

ākau

  1. reef
  2. coast (of seas), bank (of rivers)

Alternative forms

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 27
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “hakau”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 109-10

Further reading

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