hūhi

See also: huhi

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *vusi “swamp, taro bed”– compare with Samoan fusi and Fijian vuci “cultivated taro patch”[1][2]

Noun

hūhi

  1. swamp
    Synonyms: repo, ngae

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fusi.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998-) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, Canberra: Australian National University
    • volume 1: Material Culture (1998), page 139, →ISBN
    • volume 2: The Physical Environment (2008), page 58, →ISBN

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “hūhi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 78
  • “hūhi” 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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