ʻūrī

See also: ʻurī and Appendix:Variations of "uri"

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kuli (compare with Samoan ulī, Tongan kulī, Tuamotuan kurio and kuri, Hawaiian ʻīlio)[1] from Proto-Oceanic *kuli (compare with Fijian koli[1]). Doublet of ʻurī.

Noun

ʻūrī

  1. alternative form of ʻurī

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kulii”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

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