ariari

Maori

Etymology

Reduplication of ari from Proto-Polynesian *qali₁ (compare with Hawaiian aliali “crystal clear” and aniani “glass”; Tahitian ariari “clear, transparent”; Samoan aliali “to appear”)[1]

Adjective

ariari

  1. clear, visible
    Synonym: puata
  2. gleaming
    Synonyms: kawata, kowata, kōwatawata
  3. undisturbed
    Synonym: piropiro
  4. bare, stripped (of trees etc)

References

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

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “ariari”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 18-9
  • “ariari” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Rotokas

Etymology

Borrowed from Tok Pisin anian, from English onion.

Noun

ariari

  1. onion

References

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