ʻapuroro

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *kapu-roro affixing *lolo (“soft or spongy matter, brains”); from Proto-Polynesian *lolo “coconut milk or oil”[1] (compare with Samoan lolo, Tongan lolo)[2][3] from Proto-Oceanic *lolo (“ibid.”, compare with Fijian lolo); can also be analyzed as ʻapu (“shell”) + roro (“brain”).

Noun

ʻapuroro

  1. skull, cranium

References

  1. ^ Wilson, William H. (December 2012) “Whence the East Polynesians? Further Linguistic Evidence for a Northern Outlier Source”, in Oceanic Linguistics‎[1], volume 51, number 2, pages 309-11
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “roro.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “lolo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 211

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