āniwaniwa

Maori

Alternative forms

  • aaniwaniwa

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nuanua – compare with Tahitian ānuanua, Samoan nuanua.[1][2]

Noun

āniwaniwa

  1. rainbow

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 12
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 148

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “āniwaniwa”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 12
  • “āniwaniwa” 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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